Rory McIlroy Quotes
I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.
Quotes to Explore
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.
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Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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It takes one of the arrows out of our quiver, as it were.
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Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.
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How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
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I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.
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I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
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I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.
