Tom Holt (K. J. Parker) Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.
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As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
Charles B. Rangel -
Failure cannot cope with persistence.
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...I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.
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War is an admission of failure
