Ziggy Marley Quotes
The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I drink a lot of water.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.
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What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle – mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of c and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
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I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
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Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
