Kevin Pietersen Quotes
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
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My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.
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I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
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The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.
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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
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I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.
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Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.
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Everyone is into male grooming.
