Anthony Trollope Quotes
The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
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Honour thy parents; that is, allFrom whom advancement may befall:Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not striveOfficiously to keep alive.
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Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'
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'I got home at last and crawled into bed next to my girlfriend. I told her I'd had an epiphany that night about using stencils and she told me to stop taking that drug 'cos it's bad for your heart.'
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If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.
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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
