Ian Fleming Quotes
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.
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Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
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People are conditioned by the media to think that black women are all shouting, and head shaking and girlfriending and “oh no you didn’t” and if they’re not sassy, then they’re dignified and downtrodden and soldiering on and “I don’t understand why folks just can’t get along.” But if you see a black woman go quiet the way Tyburn did, the eyes bright, the lips straight and the face still as a death mask, you have made an enemy for life, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred. Do
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
