Jeffrey Archer Quotes
Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
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When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever.
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Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, 'This Boy's Life,' was a Huck Finn story set in the Eisenhower era - a story so rich and wounding that not even Hollywood could make a bad movie out of it.
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If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
