Emma Orczy Quotes
Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
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My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.
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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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I bust raps like the boys bust gat shit.
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Rub one out like a man, it's the champagne of victory.
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Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.
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I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.
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I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
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I think it’s a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.
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The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.
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Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.
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'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.
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If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.
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A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.
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In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.
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Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
