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.
Edmund White -
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.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden -
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.
T. S. Eliot -
You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours.
Brian Tracy -
The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.
Muhammad Ali
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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.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen -
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
William Shakespeare -
You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Willem Dafoe -
I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain't gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.
Muhammad Ali -
The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.
Garrison Wynn
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I only want to play my own good sets, that's the only way to make that happen.
Paul Kalkbrenner -
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
Richard Whately -
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.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe -
What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
Rex Stout