Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel (Seal) Quotes
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.
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But I want to do good work, after this series.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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Just because I’m single and don’t date a lot, that doesn’t make me a lesbian.
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Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.
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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
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We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.
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We do live in this age of new media.
