Dashiell Hammett Quotes
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Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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Never doubt that one person can make a difference.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.
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I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.
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I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
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At 21, Real Madrid or Barcelona would have been more difficult for me. If I play well enough at Chelsea, I could win my place in the starting team, and my priority is to play.
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I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to know a lot more about it, and I'm finding it fascinating.
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Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.
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No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.
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I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.
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I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
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My brother had been given a chemistry set for his bar mitzvah, but he wasn't interested in it. It was upstairs in the attic, and I would sneak up there and use it at great peril because I was afraid if he found out, he would get very angry at me, but he didn't seem to care.
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I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.
