William Penn Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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You have to be yourself.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.
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The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger.
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A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
