Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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I don't think about the media.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
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To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.
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If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.
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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.
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I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.
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There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.
