Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.
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I'm easy to hate.
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
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Our trouble is that we have ignored and thus feel insecure in the enormous spectrum of love which lies between rather formal friendship and genital sexuality, and thus are always afraid that once we overstep the bounds of formal friendship we must slide inevitably to the extreme of sexual promiscuity.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.
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All i would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.
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I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!
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None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
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I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
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I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
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The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.
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Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.
