Edith Caroline Rivett (E. C. R. Lorac) Quotes
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.
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It was one of those nights where everything went our way.
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The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning.
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Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.
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Worry is the last infirmity of the weak-minded.
