A. A. Milne Quotes
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I get homesick.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.
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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
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There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
