A. A. Milne Quotes
If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.
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In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
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Long after the fact, it occurred to me that this was a metaphor for life- blisters come before calluses, vulnerability before maturity- but not even the thickest of skins could have spared us the lash of Daddy's tongue.
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe.
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Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.
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There is only one secret. To love what you are doing.
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You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.
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Through an image, people are able to communicate how they're feeling, making even the most invisible struggles more visible to friends and family.
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It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.
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Anyone who thinks hunters are just 'bloodthirsty morons' hasn't looked into hunting. If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show, or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you're sure to learn hunting isn't about killing.
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By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a universal ground that buries all previous figures. (p. 25)
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The worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way in which we come to think of it as inevitable. ... It is not true. ... Social life is lighted up with the lustre of the white, unstained robes of many a pure man or woman who walks through its very midst.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.
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The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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The chiliasts made an atheist out of me.
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If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
