Dashiell Hammett Quotes
'Remember, I've got no idea what this is all about,' said the girl when they were in the living room, a narrow room, where blue fought with red without ever compromising on purple.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.
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My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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'Remember, I've got no idea what this is all about,' said the girl when they were in the living room, a narrow room, where blue fought with red without ever compromising on purple.
