Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.
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Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
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I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.
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Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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For a while, you could decide when you loan the player out whether he plays against you or not, and I always decided that he could play against us. But I must say I didn't get any protection from the media because when the player I loaned out scored against us, it's 'aaahhh, look at him, stupid...'
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The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.
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The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
