R. K. Milholland Quotes
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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I have a borderline-embarrassing obsession with pop music.
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The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.
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I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '
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...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
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I can't ignore someone that's in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that.
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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
