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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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
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I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.
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A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
