Wilfred Thesiger Quotes
I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.
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I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
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I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
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The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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They grew in beauty side by side,They filled one home with glee:Their graves are severed far and wideBy mount and stream and sea.
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'Do you know a cure for me?' 'Why yes,' he said, 'I know a cure for everything. Salt water.' 'Salt water?' I asked him. 'Yes,' he said, 'in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.'
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The praising thy mercy. There hath not been here; O supreme Ruler; There hath not been; there will not be, One so good as the Lord. There hath not been born in the day of the people Any one equal to God. And no one will acknowledge Any one equal to him. Above heaven, below heaven, There is no Ruler but he. Above sea, below sea, He created us.
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We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
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This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.
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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
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It feels as if I never get my just due.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.
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I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.
