Anson Jones Quotes
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
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A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
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New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.
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If you're writing a thriller, and you don't make it compelling, then you've really not done your job. So it's easier for me not to set out with certain goals, and then I can't see them as unmet. It's like life generally: If I'm not aiming to be physically fit, then I'm not always thinking about being unfit.
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.
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The Republic of Texas is no more.
