Catherine Webb Quotes
I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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Palestinian people are in love with life.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
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A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.
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I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.
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All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.
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Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
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I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Democracy means decision by those concerned.
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Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.
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Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
