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«To be honest, I'm a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.»
«You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.»
«What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live / with your self-respect alive and growing.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
| Keywords:
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«Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Communication,
God,
Meaning
| Keywords:
adjoin, adjoining, communicate, communication, knocking, knockings, link, prisoners, separates, separation, The Wall, wall
«Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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«You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Hate
| Keywords:
embrace, justified, knocking, knockings, knock down
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