Nicola Barker Quotes
Modernity’s like a badly trained dog: try and make it heel, even for a moment, and it turns and bites the hand that fed it.
Nicola Barker
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I enjoy money.
Karen Carpenter
The Carpenters
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
Octavia E. Butler
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Wisdom sits aloneTopmost in Heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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That he, in his developed manhood, stoodA little sunburnt by the glare of life;While I . . it seemed no sun had shone on me.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.
Arlen Specter
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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
Joan D. Vinge
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An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
Ken Follett
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It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.
Dean Stockwell
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These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.
Taylor Negron
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When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.
Barack Obama
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Modernity’s like a badly trained dog: try and make it heel, even for a moment, and it turns and bites the hand that fed it.
Nicola Barker