Jane Austen Quotes
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.
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You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.
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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
