Axel Munthe Quotes
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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Age doesn't affect driving - how do you like that?
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.
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The soul needs more space than the body.
