Ian Fleming Quotes
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
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“Our data is valuable because that's how we are targeted as consumers. From the moment you turn on your computer or smartphone and begin to browse the internet, you are being invisibly followed.”
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God sent me to piss the world off!
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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A woman should be an illusion.
