Archibald Hill Quotes
One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
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I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.
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I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
