Lewis Carroll Quotes
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
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I don't want to be submerged by depression.
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When you name something, you take away some of it's power. It becomes known.
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I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.
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I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.
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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
