C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.C. Northcote Parkinson
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
Carles Puigdemont -
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
Harry Browne -
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
J. William Fulbright -
There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
Earl Weaver -
I still keep my accent.
Samantha Fox -
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
Vaclav Klaus -
I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
Victor LaValle -
I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
J. D. Salinger -
I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
Gabriel Iglesias -
I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
Ira Glass
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
Dan O'Brien -
I want to do whatever I can to survive.
Sam Simon -
There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
Vincent Bugliosi -
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza -
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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I read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I've never really kept up with that side of it.
Mat Kearney -
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
Jennifer Weiner -
There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.
Leo Kottke -
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
Jonathan Sacks -
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
Eckhart Tolle -
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. Northcote Parkinson