Nigel Rees Quotes
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I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
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Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
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You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.
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My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
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People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.
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I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
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Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.
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My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations.