Douglas Bader Quotes
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I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.
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There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
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My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
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It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.
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If it's meant to be for you, it's going to happen.
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.
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If you had the height, you controlled the battle.
