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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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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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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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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For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
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Valuation is what people are willing to pay.
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But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
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You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
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Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.
