Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
Hector Hugh Munro
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
Damon Lindelof
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
Alec Guinness
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There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!
Paul Stanley
Kiss
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Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.
Abraham Zaleznik
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.
Brooks Stevens
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I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
Adrienne Monnier
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Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.
Shawn Achor
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Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.
Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Taylor Caldwell
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
Daniel Alarcon
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
Vince McMahon
