S. J. Perelman Quotes
English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.
S. J. Perelman
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
Rachel Weisz
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
Venus Williams
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
Zhang Ziyi
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
Laura Prepon
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I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.
Patch Adams
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Winston Peters: 'the only member of Parliament named after a concrete block, and I can understand that.' 1
David Lange
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham Lincoln
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There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?
Peter Bergen
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Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.
Jay Griffiths
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English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.
S. J. Perelman