Sean Connery Quotes
If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.
Sean Connery
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
Hamilton Jordan
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Ted Dekker
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
Mal Peet
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
Yael Naim
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Barry Commoner
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
Zosia Mamet
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Politics is a game of compromise.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.
Cormac McCarthy
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
Arthur Miller
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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters
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For the most part, the only contact that most Quebecers have with the world of Islam is through these images of violence, repeated over and over: wars, riots, bombs, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Boston marathon... The reaction is obvious: We'll have none of that here!
Jacques Parizeau
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The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
John Abizaid
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The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.
Joe Walsh
The Eagles
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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.
Sean Connery