Whaling was the oil business of its day.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Recitation: by Male by Female
If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.
John Niven
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Different films, different genres show the different things I do. It's nice because it brings different groups of people to following what I'm doing. So hopefully, it kind of reiterates that I'm not just a one-trick pony as well.
Aneurin Barnard
PeopleDoingNiceKindThingsWell
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
Steve Lacy
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Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.
Suki Waterhouse
FailureBestYourselfThinkDoing
In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.
Simon McBurney
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What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
Tony Campolo
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On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'
Rita Rudner
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I did 'The Frank Skinner Show,' and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen.
Robert Webb
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I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.
Martina Hingis
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We need a military strategy to defeat terrorists on the ground.
Michael McCaul
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I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.
Douglas Tompkins
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If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'
Cheryl Ladd
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