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.
Yoweri Museveni
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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.
Damien Hirst
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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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!
Candice Olson
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Pablo Casals
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
B. D. Wong
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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.
Larry Holmes
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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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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.
Ralph Merkle
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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.
Walter Kirn
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
Washed Out
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I don't think manufacturing should be looked at independently. It is part of the economy. So, when the economy does well, and when there is investment, the sector does well.
Jamshyd Godrej
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At a big company, often size turns into constipation; it fogs the lens about what's really happening. Sometimes with size and success comes the notion that since we've done things to be successful, we have the formula and can institutionalize it. That can be death.
Mark Parker
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It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
Alfre Woodard
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I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.
Kim Basinger
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Worry is the last infirmity of the weak-minded.
Edith Caroline Rivett
