T. E. Lawrence Quotes
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
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I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
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When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.
