Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.
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If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.
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I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.
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If I am happy in my personal life, I will be happy in my profession.
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This has certainly been a good working relationship. We'll see if we can't make something we're all proud of in the end.
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You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams.
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A runner fell, and this caused a big pileup in which that runner got trampled and spiked, ... When we looked back 10 seconds later, the guy was still on the ground.
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I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used.
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Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without actually seeing me.
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Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
