Patrick O'Brian Quotes
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
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I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.
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I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.
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You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
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In a typical day, I would wake up about 8 A.M., pile all my stuff into my mom's minivan - my guitar, my amp, CDs to sell, a table and a rug - drive it down to the street, and unload it all. I'd wait until about 12, then play for two hours. You could only play in two-hour intervals, so then I would move it all somewhere else.
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We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunities in India.
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If there is one thing that resonates for women, it is that regardless of where we come from or what we look like, we want to be fully recognized for the breadth of our contributions.
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When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.
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I hate Mourinho. He's a fool.
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Desolation Island (1979)
