William Maginn Quotes
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
Garth Ennis -
I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
Joanne Rowling -
Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
Ed Rendell -
I want to serve the people.
Malala Yousafzai
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
Kate Williams -
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde -
Justice is one of the core elements towards reconciliation and sustainable peace.
Federica Mogherini -
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.
Prince -
That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love.
Leonardo da Vinci -
When I wasn't playing, the most important thing was to stay patient.
Antoine Griezmann
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It's kind of shocking to me, actually, that I've almost been stereotyped, in a way - physically - because, I didn't get good grades in school; I got in a lot of fights. I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a 'nerd.' I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.
Charlyne Yi -
Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.
Ashton Eaton -
I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.
Paula Poundstone -
I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.
Brandon Cruz -
I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.
Chick Corea -
I have always found that the less we speak of our intentions, the more chance there is of our realizing them.
John Ruskin
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When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
Walter Dean Myers -
The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
Veerappa Moily -
The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
Lao Tzu -
No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.
Katherine Cecil Thurston -
No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.
William Maginn