A. A. Milne Quotes
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
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The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.
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I really have a deep sense of caring about the air that we breathe and the water that we drink. I want to be able to say that I was trying to protect that. And I also care deeply about children. My children, all children. And I care deeply about giving back.
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If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
