Omar Sy Quotes
Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
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It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like, 'Oh, I feel like I've experienced this,' or 'I am experiencing this,' or 'I might start to experience it soon.'
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I'm still driving a Prius, yeah.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.
