Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.Hilary Mantel
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
Jack Dangermond -
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Hannes Alfven -
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
Ian Frazier -
You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
Maisie Williams -
We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.
Ted Sarandos -
If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
Nancy Pelosi
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
Warren Spector -
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley -
The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.
Gail Collins -
Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama -
In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.
Lady Gaga -
If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
Dambisa Moyo
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
Ted Cruz -
I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
Gallagher -
The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
Imran Khan -
Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?
Bill Hicks -
An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
M. Scott Peck
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She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.
P. C. Cast -
First of all, a giant corporation probably shouldn't be being hacked by teenagers. I put that on the corporation, not the teenagers. Teenagers are going to do what teenagers are going to do - rebelling. But if they're able to hack a big corporation, that seems like the corporation should be better at security.
Harper Reed -
I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
Jack Kingston -
This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.
Hilary Mantel