"Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite."
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"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea."
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"I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."
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"There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we [with Donald Trump] can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas."
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"The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them."
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"Good clothes open all doors."
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"What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."
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"I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions."
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"Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king."
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"Can a woodchuck chuck wood? Because the question is, "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if," so you haven't established or proved without any shadow of a doubt that a woodchuck could chuck wood. Frankly, I believe that they chew wood. I don't think they can chuck wood at all! I take offense to the whole chucking question."
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"I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true."
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"Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me."
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"Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean."
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"Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation."
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"A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him."
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"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice."
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"The good news is that it doesn't cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free."
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"Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders."
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"Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two."
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"I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone."
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