Ian Fleming Quotes
The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.
Quotes to Explore
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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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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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Once you secure that border, then we can start doing an analysis of what we are going to do with all of the folks that got here illegally.
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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
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In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
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I just got an apartment here in Nashville, and I invested in a Queen-sized bed because I'm like, "I haven't had a big bed since I was a kid." I woke up this morning on one side, like, in "coffin position."
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.
