Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
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Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
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Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
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How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.
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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
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On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches.
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The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
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I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of spending further sums of money on it. I replied, entering fully into the matter, and giving my opinion that it was worthless.
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For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.
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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.
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It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
