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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Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.
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I am not a vegetarian. I subscribe to my own mantra: eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, don't eat too much junk food, and enjoy what you eat. Or, to summarise: eat less, eat better, move more, and get political.
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I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
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In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities.
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As a result of its generous stand Robert Maynard Hutchins’ controversial policy of admitting students after their second year of high-school, the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children’s Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins…playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.
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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
