Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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I love basketball.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I'm a gun owner.
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I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
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I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.
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I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
