P. L. Travers Quotes
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
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Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.
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If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, to play in front of the Queen, and all that. ... The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.
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..countries pretend their foreign policy is based on democratisation when this is clearly not the case. For all the challenges in Zimbabwe, for example, it is a bit of a stretch to say it is less democratic than some of the sheikhdoms of the Gulf. But none of the sheikdoms has a problem visiting Europe.
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When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
