Beryl Markham Quotes
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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My dad brought me up to be a good person.
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There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.
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The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.
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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.
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After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work.
