Anthony Browne Quotes
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Be candid with everyone.
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I don't die in anything!
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
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Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
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If I'm playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under.
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I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.
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The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
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I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.
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For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
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I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.
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I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.
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By nation of origin of our people, by 2050, America will be a Third World country. Our great cities will all look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of the Southwest will look like Juarez and Tijuana...
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Is it he or is it I that experience this?
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Prizefighting is short. Get in. Get rich. Get out. But martial arts is for life. It's for life.
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My object in this chapter is solely to shew that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.
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They are worse than the disinherited. They are not the has-beens, they are the never-weres.
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Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
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The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I would warn against anyone marrying a person with more than a ten-year age difference. It almost never works. It is difficult to find things to talk about, to use similar reference points, and to operate at the same speed of life. Another problem is that both sides usually don't want the same things at the same time.
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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.
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In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
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Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
