Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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I like to get real pretty.
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'Dignity is like morality,' Mirabilis barked. 'Too much is as bad as too little.'
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Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.
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Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
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People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
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I am fortunate in having people around me who protect me.
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He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.
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This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.
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I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.
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Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
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If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'
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I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
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Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.
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I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
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I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.
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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
