Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
It is a beautiful spot, endless forest stretching along the shore as far as the eye can reach ; and after driving through it for miles you come suddenly, at the end of an avenue of arching trees, upon the glistening, oily sea, with the orange-coloured sails of distant fishing-smacks shining in the sunlight.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
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My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
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Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
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Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in the capability of our military forces, and as a former military man myself - I was a professional naval officer, a submarine officer - I thought it was better, on a step-by-step, very carefully planned way, to increase the technical, or technological, capability of our weapons systems.
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.
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Caddy smelled like trees.
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I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.
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It is a beautiful spot, endless forest stretching along the shore as far as the eye can reach ; and after driving through it for miles you come suddenly, at the end of an avenue of arching trees, upon the glistening, oily sea, with the orange-coloured sails of distant fishing-smacks shining in the sunlight.
