William Christopher Handy Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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C Kalyan has been amazing and totally committed as a producer.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.
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I don't contain a self-personality, that I might stand up and say, Do this for me. Kings might say that, Bring me jewels, and so on, but I don't say that. Because when I see the growth of a human being and I see that his love and affection are really growing, then I feel happy. That is what pleases me.
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Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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I hate to see the evening sun go down.
