David Lean Quotes
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
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Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
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I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
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Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
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I'm a realist and I always have been.
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
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His the author's renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.
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When a fellow says, 'It hain't the money, but th' principle o' the thing,' it's th' money.
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Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfilment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.
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In countries where there is great private wealth, much may be effected by the voluntary contributions of patriotic individuals; but in a community situated like that of the United States, the public purse must supply the deficiency of private resource. In what can it be so useful, as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry?
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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I am running for re-election no matter who runs.
Charles B. Rangel
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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All I want for my career is I want to work with the best directors and I want to be treated like a Caucasian man would be.
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It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
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I never declared I wanted to be an astronaut, as I considered that was presumptuous.
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I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.
