Eleanor Catton Quotes
From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
Eleanor Catton
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
E. P. Thompson
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
Dalai Lama
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
T. D. Jakes
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
Ed Oxenbould
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
Dan Aykroyd
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I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
Sammy Sosa
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao Tzu
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
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I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.
Zach Cregger
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.
Babasaheb
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Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised.....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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A political consultant, when we first started thinking about Senate race, said, "You can have one funny name. You can be 'Barack Smith.' Or you can be 'Joe Obama.' But 'Barack Obama' - that's not gonna work."
Barack Obama
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The world needs a person like me so that many other rich people will be able to follow my role model. If they do, many poor people will be helped.
Chen Guangbiao
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From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
Eleanor Catton
