Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
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We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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You'd see those movie stars on the screen, and say, 'I want to be that guy.'
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
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I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.
