Daniel Defoe Quotes
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I owe everything to France.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did it without any ego involved and that you did it for somebody else. That's the best you can do.
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Stories that can be told through language and words don't need to be filmed.
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That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
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And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed,Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
