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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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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Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
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I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.
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The Capitol serves as a beacon of American liberty, freedom and democracy, and Rosa Parks served as the mother of the America we grew to be.
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The ancient triumph of Christianity proved to be the single greatest cultural transformation our world has ever seen. Without it the entire history of Late Antiquity would not have happened as it did. We would never have had the Middle Ages, the Reformation, the Renaissance, or modernity as we know it. There could never have been a Matthew Arnold. Or any of the Victorian poets. Or any of the other authors of our canon: no Milton, no Shakespeare, no Chaucer. We would have had none of our revered artists: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, or Rembrandt. And none of our brilliant composers: Mozart, Handel, or Bach. To be sure, we would have had other Miltons, Michelangelos, and Mozarts in their places, and it is impossible to know whether these would have been better or worse. But they would have been incalculably different.
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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.
