T. E. Lawrence Quotes
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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If they don't score, we can't lose.
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Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
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At the end of our lives, we’ll discover that the best legacy we can leave our family and friends is our passion for the Savior.
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Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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the sword also means clean-ness + death