Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
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In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.
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People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.
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I did vote to defund the Obama program that defers deporting the so-called DREAMers, because that was the president's decision, and the president shouldn't unilaterally get to decide what laws to enforce or not enforce.
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I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.
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That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
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I was never any good at keeping secrets.
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Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.
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When 'Dynasty' was on, it was a huge deal when Diahann Carroll came on the show. That was groundbreaking.
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If you put out 20 films, you hope that a number are successful. It's like human reproduction versus frog reproduction. Frogs produce thousands and hope a few succeed. Humans don't produce many babies but put a lot of energy into them, which is kind of where we are. They still don't always succeed, but you try a lot harder.
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Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
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Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.
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Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.
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Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
