Bernard Sahlins
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VILORIA Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... 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Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character. 
A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's charact... 
I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. ... 
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler p... 
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and ... 
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while ... 
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are
the gift of fortune, while ... 
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, e... 
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus ev... 
Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work. 
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character ... 
I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head. 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. 
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... 
I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character. 
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
Family is the most important thing in the world. 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. 
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... 
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But n... 
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. 
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav... 
That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness. 
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the par... 
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. 
Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm. 
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat. 
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes... 
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. 
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. 
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty... 
I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distort... 
A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything. 
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the... 
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qu... 
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that ... 
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau... 
Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. 
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving 
I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone. 
It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. 
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they... 
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. 
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. 
I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wast... 
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. 
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to den... 
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete... 
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. 
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhil... 
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentf... 
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. 
To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that y... 
I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who ... 
In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage. 
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chan... 
They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig! 