Beryl Markham Quotes
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
Quotes to Explore
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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You're only as good as your last haircut.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
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Everybody's not always open to everything. People have biased feelings about certain things, especially in the hip-hop world. The hip-hop world hates homosexuality.
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I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.
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A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
