William Penn Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.
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There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.
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If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.
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There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters.
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Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
