Cecil Rhodes Quotes
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
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I love drums and still play frequently.
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I believe in art, and more fundamentally the freedom to express one's self creatively. People don't know yet what they'll ultimately believe in or how they'll organize their lives. They're kind of in limbo.
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Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
