Rex Stout Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
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You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours.
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The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.
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Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.
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Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
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You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.
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In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.
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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
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At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.
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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
