Peter Hambleton Quotes
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
Viggo Mortensen
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The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.
Frances O'Grady
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
Ornette Coleman
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
Sammy Sosa
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Kobe Bryant has always been my favorite player, and he was drafted No. 13, too, in 1996.
Zach LaVine
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
Yuri Lowenthal
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...a poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it...
Randall Jarrell
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'I never saw so many tigers.'
J. D. Salinger
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The dog, to gain some private ends,Went mad, and bit the man.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.
Garry Kasparov
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The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
Adam Smith
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Charm was what he excelled at. If anyone sensed his underlying shallowness, they usually mistook it for well-hidden great depth of character, like misinterpreting a radar bounce.
Alastair Reynolds
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Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.
Margaret Mead
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You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson or an equation.
Kim Stanley Robinson
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Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
Ramana Maharshi
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.
Marlene Dumas
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Apparently, Stephen Hunter does a fantastic barbecue lamb.
Peter Hambleton
