Cressida Cowell Quotes
“Wodensfang, you're paranoid," said Hiccup, yawning. "It's only paranoia," whispered the Wodensfang, "if things aren't out to get you...
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When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
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Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.
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Moments later he punched her unconscious. No, he didn't, don't send us letters.
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Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury
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A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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A little mordida, here. A little mordida, there.
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I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.
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My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.
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I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.
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When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.
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The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
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I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
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I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more # romantic than the present day
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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
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I was diagnosed with paranoia for fear of never smoking weed again.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.
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That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?
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“Wodensfang, you're paranoid," said Hiccup, yawning. "It's only paranoia," whispered the Wodensfang, "if things aren't out to get you...
