Alan Paton Quotes
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.Alan Paton
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
Raekwon -
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
Dan O'Brien -
I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
Felicia Day -
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson -
There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
Earl Weaver -
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
Malala Yousafzai -
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf -
It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
Zac Efron -
Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
Gary Johnson -
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
Ferdinand Mount -
The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
Caitlin Moran
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis -
People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
Oona Chaplin -
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
Mara Wilson -
Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
Kat Edmonson -
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
Zig Ziglar -
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
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It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective, it is possible to tell one aspect of an entire society's story.
Jiang Wen -
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
Honore de Balzac -
I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.
Daniel Radcliffe -
I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.
Chad Stahelski -
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
Alan Paton