Samuel Beckett Quotes
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Quotes to Explore
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.
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I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
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I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I'm very proud of my gravy.
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It occurred to me that memorials shouldn't be grand. If you really want to honor the memory of a tragedy, you shouldn't create areas of calm reflection. You should make people uncomfortable. Put them in the shoes of those who perpetrated and those who suffered. Then ask, would they be able to forgive in these situations?
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
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I'm not into fad diets; I'm not into depriving. I like fast food, and I like chocolate.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
