Walter Bagehot Quotes
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Quotes to Explore
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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I have to be inspired to write a song.
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People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.
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The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
