Manfred von Richthofen Quotes
We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
