Martine Syms Quotes
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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Once we can see how this question of freedom of the will has been vitiated by post-romantic philosophy, with its inbuilt tendency to laziness and boredom, we can also see how it came about that existentialism found itself in a hole of it’s own digging, and how the philosophical developments since then have amounted to walking in circles round that hole.
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Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.
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My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.
