Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
Walt Mossberg
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
Wayne Newton
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
Karl Liebknecht
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
Sade Adu
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
Naveen Jain
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
Walter Isaacson
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
Laird Barron
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
Kallam Anji Reddy
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
Mac Thornberry
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
Carly Craig
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I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
Ian Anthony Dale
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
Florence Nightingale
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Jerry Cantrell talking about Chris Cornell at the press room of the Rock and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. YouTube (April 14, 2018).
Jerry Cantrell
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I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison.
Patrisse Cullors
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
Paul Theroux
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For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.
Daniel Radcliffe
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I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity.
Danny McBride
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My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.
Daniel Bryan
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
Jake Tapper
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L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
Mamie Gummer
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No show can be 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' including 'The Gayle King Show.' I think she's very good but I think I'm very good too. I think we have different skill sets... but I don't think that I could do what she does and never have.
Gayle King
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Hector Hugh Munro