Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.
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Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
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I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
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It's not going to be easy to change things.
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Life is very cyclical. And my career has been very-high-very-low, very-high-very-low, and I think it'll probably keep on rolling that way.
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We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.
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You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...
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And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.
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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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Marxism has had it.
