Noel Streatfeild Quotes
It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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What's important is Welsh football and that it progresses.
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There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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YOU LYING WHORE!!! You used me! You never loved me! I hope you slide under a gas truck and taste your own blood! DIE! DIE! DIE! I want my records back! I want my fucking records back!
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Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.
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All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
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i keep drinking the ink from my penand i'm balancing history books up on my headbut it all boils down to one quotable phraseif you love something give it away
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Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.
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I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old. I used to get British comics and I clearly remember seeing my first American comic: an issue of 'Action Comics', with Superman on the cover with a treasure horde in a cave, and Lois saying something like 'I don't believe Superman is a miser!'
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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It doesn't matter if the Republican or the Democratic candidate wins the governorship of Hawaii. Either one is already in the kingdom.
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Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.
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I've had some not-great experiences with laser hair removal, probably because I haven't done what they told me.
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The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious.
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It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you.
