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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.


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My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.



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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.



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Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.



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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.



Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.



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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.



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I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.



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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.



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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.



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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!





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Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.




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