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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron
Truth Strange Truth Is Always Than Fiction Stranger
I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable. Lucian Freud
Try Style Think About Never Pictures Look Make Just Believable
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's. Marianne Faithfull
God You Franklin Must Voice Aretha Know
Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices. Mariella Frostrup
Life Mistake Negative Big Overwhelming Sense Our Rule Our Lives Occasion Dictate Big Mistake Frustrations Sentiments Choices Rife Lives Injustices
Abortion is wrong. I think everyone knows that, which is why abortion activists are so angry all the time. It's a bit like when you catch someone out in a lie, and they get really mad at you really quickly, and you can't work out why until later. It's guilt. Milo Yiannopoulos
Work Time Angry You Lie Abortion Guilt Think Everyone Later Bit Mad Out Someone Catch Wrong Like Until Knows Quickly Get Which Work Out Really Activists Why
One of the remarkable things about Donald Trump is that he didn't just beat the Progressive establishment - he also beat the Conservative establishment. Two political tribes that dominated Washington for half a century were defeated in the space of one election campaign. Milo Yiannopoulos
Conservative Political Space Election Half Progressive Tribes About Beat Remarkable He Also Were Trump Campaign Dominated Donald Donald Trump Just Establishment Century Washington Things Defeated Two
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are. Naomie Harris
You Soul Eyes Face Worry Tell Window About True True Story Being Story Ageing Your Who Twisted
I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure. Princess Diana
Me Everything Secure Gifts Someone Bought Feel Safe Make Just Expensive Want
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that. Robert Harris
Life Time Money True Limited Got Stock Currency
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm. Sebastian Coe
Inspirational Leadership Respect Trust Inspire Focus Enthusiasm About Someone Only Mentality Purpose Winning Leaders Half-Hearted Order Hard Who Need
Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals. Sid Waddell
Life Rule Rivals Never Never Underestimate Underestimate Golden Golden Rule Your
I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase. Steve-O
Me World Made Important Think Mission Still Prove Sobriety Show Soft
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Virginia Woolf
Life Spider Corners Slightly Scarcely Web Attached Attachment Like Perhaps Still Often Fiction Ever Four
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. W. Somerset Maugham
Freedom Will Lose Nation Too Ease About More Soon Comfort Than Any Thing Thinks
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. William Pitt
Power Corrupts Corrupts Power Unlimited Unlimited Power
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. William Pitt
Law Tyranny Power Minds Unlimited Unlimited Power Those Apt Corrupt Know Lords Begins Ends Where Who
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. Winston Churchill
World Old Saving Divert New Left New World Energies Your Plans
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. Winston Churchill
War Good Peace Win Those Would Rarely Could Never Well Make Won Who
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them. Queen Victoria
Me Important Think I Think Important Thing Them Thing
There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance. Adam Peaty
Confidence Arrogance Between Line Very Thin
The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy? Alan Rickman
Impossible Control Other Our Destinies Possible Tell No Control About More Over Come Idiots Governed Where Stories Might Fantasy Who Each Why Need
Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger. Alesha Dixon
Tough Times You Stronger Tough Become Once Only Through Been Times
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git. Alexei Sayle
Saying Stupid President Say Ways Git Lift American Different They Say Different Ways Elevator Things
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. Andrew Lansley
Pressure Peer Peer Pressure Classic Powerful Excuses Norms Behaviour Influences Social
As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do. Anthony Joshua
Success You Discipline Long Everything Makes Need
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. Arnold J. Toynbee
Today Survival Better Become Society Considerably Ourselves Prospects Tigers Were Than Human Against Race
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