Patrick Henry Quotes
Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.
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I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
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I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.
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The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
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I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.
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I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
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So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.
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Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information across the globe. But globalisation is also a view of the world - it is an opinion about man and why men are on the world.
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Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.
