John Major Quotes
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
John Major
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
Nate Silver
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
Oscar Hijuelos
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Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.
Kate Brown
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I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
K. A. Applegate
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
Salman Rushdie
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
Larry Wall
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To disband the armies and destroy the forts, to diffuse love and brotherhood, and peace and justice in the place of war and strife, could tend only to the buidling up of character, the elevation of the soul, and the strength and well-being of the state.
Clarence Darrow
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
Marcus Aurelius
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Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
Learned Hand
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The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.
Matthew Desmond
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Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.
Jacqueline Bisset
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Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!
Dove Cameron
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Because the world owes me nothingAnd we owe each other the world.
Ani DiFranco
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Your friend Will is a good man, too,but I fear he's no longer an archer.' 'It would have been better, I sometimes think-' 'If he had died? Wish death on no man, Thomas, it comes soon enough without a wish.'
Bernard Cornwell
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If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.
Ashley Kahn
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Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
John Major
