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.
Park Geun-hye -
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.
J. M. Roberts -
It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
N. Murray Edwards -
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
Abbas Kiarostami -
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
Uwe Boll -
We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
Rachel Shelley
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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.'
Vikram Seth -
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.
Lao Tzu -
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
Gary Gygax -
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
Larry MacPhail -
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
Saint Augustine -
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.'
J. J. Watt
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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.
Gary Ross -
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond de Goncourt -
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.
Daniel Barenboim -
Kate Moss has great style.
Yigal Azrouël -
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
Walter Kirn -
I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
Adam McKay
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
Ian Hacking -
A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.
Antonio Damasio -
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
B. F. Skinner -
That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.
Kara Goucher -
A woman should be an illusion.
Ian Fleming