Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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If I feel like I need a little color, I'll get a natural spray tan. Not only does this give me a little extra coverage, but it also allows me to achieve the bronzed look I want without the sun damage.
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Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.
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Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
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I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.
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For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been proposed with the following characteristics :
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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
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The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu
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A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
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Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
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Nobody picks on a strong man.
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Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does.
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I think it's important to talk to my sisters when I have a big decision to make.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
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Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.
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To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
