Graham Cyril Russell Quotes
Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.
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While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.
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Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.
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Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.
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He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him - as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life.
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To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
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If at the end of the year you want to be in this race, you've got to start stepping up and getting wins.
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You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.
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People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
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If the Australians can't respect good cricket they don't deserve to see the best in action.
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Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.
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The only person you resent is yourself.
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When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; not only do you give up, but you resent your wish and you resent wishing.
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Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
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I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share
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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
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They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
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When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.
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I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture
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Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.
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Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.
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He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.
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Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.
