Bentley Little Quotes
The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
Quotes to Explore
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
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Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.
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When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.
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The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
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Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.
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I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.
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The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
