William E. Gladstone Quotes

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

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• I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

  

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• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

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• If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

  

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• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

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• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

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• I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
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• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

  

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• We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  

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• I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

  

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• I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?

  

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• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

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• Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

  

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• I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

  

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• It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.

  

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• Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.

  

  Sebastian Junger
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• The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • War
  • Drug
  • Oppression