C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
Natasha Lyonne
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
Iman
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
S. Jay Olshansky
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
Frances Mayes
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
Fabrizio Moreira
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Barry Marshall
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
Sam Harris
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf
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I'm always forming bands.
Damian Lewis
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
Queen Rania of Jordan
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Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
Uzo Aduba
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
Jackie Evancho
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
Wayne Kramer
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The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.
Ralph Bakshi
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
Tamora Pierce
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Eberhard Weber
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In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. Northcote Parkinson