Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I can't retire.
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We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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Sometimes the hardest decision is to say no to something, and I think when you're less confident or when you're younger, you say yes to everything, and as you get older, you realise you don't need to.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
