Fernando Alonso Quotes
I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.
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There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.
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For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.
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I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.
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I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
