Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
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Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
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If you're able to pay your bills, you pay your bills. It's as simple as that.
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I know that any fan of 'Veronica Mars' is hardcore and loyal, so I give them the time; we spend time talking about it because it warrants that.
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My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
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For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.
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The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
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Let's close all the Islamist mosques.
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Women and eating disorders have such a long history, but now I see it happening to gay men. And when it comes to anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphia, gay men are far worse than women. They take it way more seriously. 'Why diet when you can take crystal meth?'
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To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.
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Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
