Edmund Blunden Quotes
Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
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We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.
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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
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The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
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Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.
