Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.
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Life doesn't get easier but it does get funnier.
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There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.
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Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.
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If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
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The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006.
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EPA has a long history of relying on science that was not created by the agency itself. This often means that the science is not available to the public and, therefore, cannot be reproduced and verified.
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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
