Rounds Quotes - Page 4

All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

Ramana Maharshi

Self, Ego, Mind

Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

Rocky Marciano

Boxing, Guy, Waltz

"Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

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My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

Cindy Margolis

Thanksgiving, Kids, Years

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You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better.

Pauline Marois

Shoes, Kicking It, People

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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

George McGovern

Strong, War, United States

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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

Ian Mcewan

Running, Two, Savages

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.

Erin Morgenstern

Home, Night, Light

"Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

John Motson

Running, Brazil

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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

Aimee Mullins

Home, Night, Paper

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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

Olivia Munn

Inspirational, Basketball, Men

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Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Elon Musk

Land, Dollars, Mars

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

Willie Nelson

Doctors, Drunk, Should

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You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Stevie Nicks

Dream, Girlfriend, Men

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When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

Apolo Ohno

Winning, Hair, Race

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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Ben Okri

Writing, Past, Circles

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Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

John Boyd Orr

Country, Communication, Years

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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

George Orwell

Lying, Cities, Police

1946 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

Camille Paglia

Fashion, Children, Hair

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Jean Paul

Beauty, Party, Literature

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I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

Ron Perlman

Fighting, Thinking, People

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Steven Pinker

Perspective, Suffering, Inability

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How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

Brad Pitt

Fighting, Together Again, Stories

"Brad Pitt Talks Jennifer Aniston and 'Trying to Pretend the Marriage Was Something That It Wasn't'" by Natalie Finn, www.eonline.com. September 15, 2011.

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Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

Terry Pratchett

Home, Pages, Starting

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I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Elvis Presley

Training, Lines, Way

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I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

Daniel Radcliffe

Party, Mean, Thinking

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