William Dalrymple Quotes
For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.
Quotes to Explore
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
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Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
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'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'
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One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.
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If I write the song, I get to name it.
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The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.
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Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses-and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius-and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.
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I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
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My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
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For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.
