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.
Alexandra David-Neel
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
Gary Speed
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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.
Fat Joe
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. Flay
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid
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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.
Laura Mvula
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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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.
Vanessa Lengies
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To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
Zhang Yimou
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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.
Taron Egerton
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
Barack Obama
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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.
Ferdinand Foch
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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.
Anthony Burgess
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You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.
Ben Quayle
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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
Adam Baldwin
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My father's father died when he was a teenager, and dad went to work to support his mother and two siblings as a carpenter and as a builder's mule, hauling carts of lumber to construction sites when it was too icy for the mules to climb the hills.
Maryanne Trump Barry
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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.
Alexandra David-Neel
