Cobie Smulders Quotes
I've been in 'Avengers' films, but I don't do a lot of the action parts. There are superheroes in the movie! People would much rather see them fight each other!
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
Laura Dern
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
Kapil Dev
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
Rajiv Ouseph
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
Tamara Ecclestone
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
Bam Margera
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Samantha Power
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
Larry David
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
Barry Mann
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus
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My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.
Derek Walcott
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I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.
Carmen Laforet
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I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.
Marcus du Sautoy
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Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot.
Brad Thor
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I've been in 'Avengers' films, but I don't do a lot of the action parts. There are superheroes in the movie! People would much rather see them fight each other!
Cobie Smulders