Norman Angell (Sir Ralph Norman Angell) Quotes
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'
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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
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Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
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I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
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What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.
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When I first came to Columbia University, I was dirt poor. I did not choose to come here - I just ended up here because I had nowhere else to go, having just escaped from China after Tiananmen. I was in a new country where I didn't understand the language, didn't know anybody, and didn't have a penny to my name. So I was desperate and afraid.
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Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.
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Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.
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The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
