Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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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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My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
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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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Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.
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Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.
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Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.
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I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
