Caitriona Balfe Quotes

I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.

Caitriona Balfe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: October 4, 1979

Topics

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Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Jim Ramstad

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Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

Matt Taibbi

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I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

Matthew Fox

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After about fourth grade, I do remember borrowing my mother's old portable Olivetti and typing stories out on the back of photocopies of journal articles.

Ann Leckie

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There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don't want to think at all; I find that disturbing.

Andy Kindler

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The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.

Steve Howey

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My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.

Amal Clooney

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I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

Roelof Botha

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I'm a huge Stephen King fan.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

Rowan Atkinson

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When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.

Mikaela Shiffrin

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