Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
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A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
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But don't worry... only yours is right.
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She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.
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You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.
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about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
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All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
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There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
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You don't miss what you never had.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.
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I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
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When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
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Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
