Cressida Cowell Quotes
However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don't mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords. That has always been the problem with us Vikings. I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
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I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.
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However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don't mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords. That has always been the problem with us Vikings. I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams.
