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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You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.
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Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
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I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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Desolation Island (1979)
