Antal Szerb Quotes
We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don't know why, but that period just resonates with me - 'Goldeneye' and 'Ocarina of Time' and 'Rogue Squadron.'
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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I write what I write.
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We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that?
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
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While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
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The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that's the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.
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Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.
