Bevo Howard Quotes
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.
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Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
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Girls always make our music go. They set the trends. It starts with the ladies.
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Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
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My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
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Love is only one fine star away.
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Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.
