Beryl Markham Quotes
Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.
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My mother was always supportive.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
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Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
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Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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An actor should be judged by his performance only.
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Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.
