A. A. Milne Quotes

'It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.'

A. A. Milne

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• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

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• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  

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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

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• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

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• I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

  

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• Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

  

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• We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.

  

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• If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

  

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• The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

  

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• I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

  

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• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

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• I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

  

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• The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

  

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• I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

  

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• I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

  

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• Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.

  

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• The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.

  

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• Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

  

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• Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.

  

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• The disinterested love of truth which culture fosters is akin to the unselfishness which is a characteristic of the good.

  

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• Everybody laughs all the time, and some of the worst things that happen make you laugh 'cause it's a defense isn't it, I suppose.

  

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• 'It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Small
  • Animal
  • Brave