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.
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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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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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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He's an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on.
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
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John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.
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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.
