Bob Monkhouse Quotes
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
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I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
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My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.
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That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
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I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.
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Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.
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If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China were united, our country would rest upon a great rock, and we could defy the world to overthrow us. To attain this object, it is necessary first that every man should fulfill his duty to his parents and elders. The country would then be at peace.
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I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.
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If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.
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I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.
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Smarmy, plastic, oily, greasy, unctuous, shallow, superficial, old-fashioned, superannuated, crap
