Edmund Waller Quotes
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
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When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
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Dimples crinkle up the skin near his lips. I will not look at his lips. How can he never have used those? That’s a crime against humanity right there.
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He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
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Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
