Edmund de Waal Quotes
I liked the way that repetition wears things smooth, and there was something of the river stone to Iggie’s stories.
Quotes to Explore
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.
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He was always there when I needed him and someone I could talk too and argue with. In a Freudian way he was the father I never had. For me, partners were like father figures most of the time.
Nastassja Kinski -
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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He abandonado la indigente necesidad de vivir. Vivo sin ella.
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I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
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There's no federal government agency that ought to be immune from having to explain the potential financial impact of an action they've taken or intend to take. We deserve the specifics.
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I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.
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We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.
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The Hudson River lay flat and black like a lost evening glove. The clouds parted overhead as the distant moon threw a single, bright beam over lower Manhattan as though it were looking for its other half.
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There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.
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I liked the way that repetition wears things smooth, and there was something of the river stone to Iggie’s stories.
