Ava Gardner Quotes
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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Love is more than one thing.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.
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And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
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Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad. I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
