Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft Quotes
Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
Jack Finney
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
Manfred Mann
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
Irving Babbitt
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
Yasmine Bleeth
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
Orlando Bloom
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
Indra Nooyi
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
Adam Hughes
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
Veerappa Moily
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I've spent many a long flight talking to flight attendants, trying to understand what kind of employment experience underlies such a consistent lack of concern for customers.
Patrick Lencioni
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It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.
Laura Trott
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Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.
Camille Paglia
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Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
David Suzuki
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
Dean Koontz
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Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
Clayton Christensen
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This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.
James Carville
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I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.
Lake Bell
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
Nan Fairbrother
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My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.
Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft