T. E. Lawrence Quotes
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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We care about margins.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
