Alfred Austin Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.
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I was barely in 'Taking Woodstock.'
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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
