Nellie Melba Quotes
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
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But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.
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'Mature' and 'responsible' are words I don't understand.
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South Africans cannot believe that a man who never went to school is the President and that is the reason why he must be attacked 24/7 ... No one has ever said it is a miracle for this man to have become president and wrote a column about it.
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It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
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One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
