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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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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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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People always like people, you know?
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The contract I signed wasn't for three or four years. It was for five years.
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Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
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When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.
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Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.
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Smarmy, plastic, oily, greasy, unctuous, shallow, superficial, old-fashioned, superannuated, crap
