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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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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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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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 don't think I'm afraid of anything.
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Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them!
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As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.
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It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called 'Quintuplets' for a season for Fox, and this was while 'Arrested Development' was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.
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There are some real positives for Wales. Their back four's not bad, sometimes.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
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'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.
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All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
