Lord Byron Quotes
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
Eavan Boland
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
Bear Grylls
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
Olivia Hussey
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
Larry David
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
Carine Roitfeld
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
Camilla Lackberg
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
Walt Handelsman
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
Lance Loud
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
Jack Nicklaus
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
Pankaj Mishra
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I'm a typical California boy.
Gary Lockwood
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
Beatrice Webb
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I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
Damien Rice
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I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
Indra Nooyi
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
T. E. Hulme
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
Barbara Demick
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I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.
Homer
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Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.
Albert Camus
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
Quentin Crisp
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The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.
H. L. Mencken
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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.
Aristotle
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Lord Byron