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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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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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 -
Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.
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If I could have a record that represents every stage of my life, I'd be putting out one a month. Everything is always changing, and so is the way that I feel about stuff.
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Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.
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Even though I design my own jewelry, one of the great things about my job is being able to bring in really talented collaborators.
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Loss-absorbing capacity among banks is substantially higher as a result of both regulatory requirements and stress testing exercises.
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I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.
