Imelda May Quotes
In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was.
Quotes to Explore
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.
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I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
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It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.
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Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?
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'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
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In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was.
