Wilfred Thesiger Quotes
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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Social media... it's the future for the new generation.
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Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.
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My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
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What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
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And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!
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The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].
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I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
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In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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I've never lived in New York. I've never done a play off or on Broadway, so I think that's in my future. Have that experience - get a little apartment in the city and grow a beard and walk around with earbuds in my ears, and a stocking cap and a big giant scarf.
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.
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He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
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I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
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Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full
