Cary Grant Quotes
I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I just think people should be able to express themselves.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?
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I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.
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Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
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We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.
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If the kids don't believe, make them believe.
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We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.
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Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.
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When Michael Frere came to see Elizabeth about her autobiography All the Dogs of My Life she found him ‘such a boring little man. But it is because we are all growing old, and the bones of our inadequate minds come through the flesh that hid them.’ She hadn’t always found him boring, and Love, one of her best novels, is largely based on their romance.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
