David Herbert Donald Quotes
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
Farley Mowat
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
Malcolm X
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Quentin Tarantino
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
Kate McKinnon
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
E. M. Forster
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
Aaron Sorkin
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.
Edith Head
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I love men's wear.
Lara Stone
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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
Gavin Bryars
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Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
Imtiaz Ali
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Those who slew my father I drove into exile, punishing their deed by due process of law, and afterwards when they waged war upon the republic I twice defeated them in battle.
Augustus
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Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
Bill Pullman
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If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated.
Bobby Sands
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
Thomas More
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Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
David Herbert Donald
