Baron Munchausen Quotes
Why, why, why? Because it's all logic and reason now! Science, progress, chip-chip... Laws of hydraulics, laws of social dynamics, laws of this, that and the other... No place for three legged Cyclops in the South Seas... no place for cucumber trees and oceans of vine... no place for me!
Quotes to Explore
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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I would like to be a polyglot.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Books are humanity in print.
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Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend another $150 million to $200 million to launch the drug outside India.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.
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Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.
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I believe in microfinance because it isn't just a path out of poverty. It's the road to self-reliance. By allowing people to team up and literally become their own bank, you can mobilize people and resources and alleviate poverty on the global scale.
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I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.
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'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.
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It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.
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I never sensed the feeling of killing as such, only a feeling of stopping something terrible from happening, a compulsion to squeeze the person by the throat to relieve and absolve him and me from something terrible.
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The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.
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Why, why, why? Because it's all logic and reason now! Science, progress, chip-chip... Laws of hydraulics, laws of social dynamics, laws of this, that and the other... No place for three legged Cyclops in the South Seas... no place for cucumber trees and oceans of vine... no place for me!
