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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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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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 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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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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I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day.
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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
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When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.
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We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads.
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It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.
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I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites.
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Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.
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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.
