A. A. Milne Quotes

The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

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• My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'

  

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• When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.

  

  Edi Rama
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• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

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• To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
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• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  

  Gary Wright
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• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

  Aaron Carter
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• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
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• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

  Olivia Williams
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• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

  Ed Markey
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• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

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• As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

  

  Dan Simmons
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• As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.

  

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• The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

  

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• I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

  

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• Americans have seen the value of the dollar slowly decline due to the steady erosion of inflation.

  

  Kevin Brady
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• North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.

  

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• Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

  

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• I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.

  

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• The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

  

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