Alexandra David-Neel Quotes
As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
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I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.
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The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil.
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We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
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We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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What keeps me going is that young people still want to see me.
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Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.
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If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.
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To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine.
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It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.
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We went out and tagged 17 sharks and watched where they went. The data was amazing.
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I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage.
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As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.
