Nevil Shute Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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Music is my release.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I'm a real optimist.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
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My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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I say bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians to be expendable.
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Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a lot of concern about getting embroiled in another Vietnam and ... about sending American troops once again to fight someone else's war.
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We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.
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I've always been a bit of a gypsy.
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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
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There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.
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Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.
