Albert Cossery Quotes
“The world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... You must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.”
Quotes to Explore
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
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I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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When you say your prayers try to understand
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The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly aware of it - and there seemed to be an understanding that we were all very much in the same boat.
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I am very aware that I married up, and I'm lucky for it every day.
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Having done film, TV and theatre, the nicest final bit of the jigsaw is to do live comedy, because you can talk to the audience. It feels really natural to be able to laugh with them, but at the same time still be within the framework of a play.
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If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.
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I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
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“The world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... You must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.”
