Alexandra David-Neel Quotes
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
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I think we have the best women's division on Smackdown Live. But, I miss Charlotte like a son of a gun. She's my favorite person to be in the ring with. She's the most incredible talent, and she keeps improving. When you've got a talent like that who's always stepping up their game, it always keeps you stepping up your game.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
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Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.
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If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.
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Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
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I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.
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'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.
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I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.
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Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative.
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L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.
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I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.
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I have always known my mother as an agnostic, less certain than my father that the universe hadn't been created by some great intelligence. But she would get even more annoyed than my father did when she thought that people were invoking God to do their jobs for them - for example, when she saw a bus with a sticker saying 'Allah Protect Us.'
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Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
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Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
