Nevil Shute Quotes
Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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I love to push myself.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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Doesn't everyone hate Kristen Stewart?
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
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Thrashing about on stage is my exercise for the day!
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Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.
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Will we follow the course of societies past that have lost their way and crumbled under the devastating forces of economic upheaval, war and other crises? Or we pull together as families and communities to create a brighter future?
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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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Taylor Swift is cool. And I like her music. She's a great performer, and she's fun to listen to at times.
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I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.
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Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.
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Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.
