Douglas Adams Quotes
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I'm happiest when I'm discussing a script and working with interesting people.
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You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.
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If you have a horse that can beat horses worth $20,000, typically you enter it in a $20,000 claiming race. Now there might be people who feel their horse is worth $20,000, and they say, 'I wouldn't mind seeing the horse get beat.' So they'll enter it for $40,000 so the horse looks like it's performed badly.
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The Internet can be used to hurt many people.
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.