Beryl Markham Quotes
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.
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I am an inventor of music.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.
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Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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I grew up, like most people in my generation, watching John Travolta. I was thrilled to meet him.
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You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
