Alan Bradley Quotes
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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I received free health care.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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The spine of the FBI is the rule of law. The spine of the FBI is a commitment to doing the right thing, in the right way, while protecting civil liberties.
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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
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Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
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I say, "Look, I'm here now. There must be a reason I'm here." If that's fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if we're falling in the ocean, we're falling into the ocean.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
