Brian Lara Quotes
I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
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As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.
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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
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Susie and I choose the vegetarian way of life because for us, there really is no other choice. We must evolve as a race and as a planet, and evolution includes learning and changing from our mistakes. We will never truly grow until we as a whole come to the realization that all beings on this Earth should be treated with love and respect.
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Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
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The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
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I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that. I wrote the songs I wanted to write, for me. I had no idea that 'American Pie' would relate to anybody.
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If you really get into a particular character, you also want to do your own stunts.
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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
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It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.
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Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.
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I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
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If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.
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I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.
