Sam Houston Quotes
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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We must relearn to be alone.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
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Being on set is a hard thing. A lot of people are like, 'Oh, you get to make a movie, and it's all fun.' But the reality is, it's a lot of hours. It's a lot of reshoots; it's a lot of waiting. And you can become increasingly agitated by the amount of time that you are waiting. But that's real.
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
