William Bolitho (William Bolitho Ryall) Quotes
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
V. S. Naipaul
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
Candice Swanepoel
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I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!
Salma Hayek
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
Laura Marling
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
Fay Godwin
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
Barry Ritholtz
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
Edmund Hillary
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Samuel Gompers
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
Nancy Sinatra
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
Felicity Jones
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
Linus Torvalds
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Marcus Aurelius
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images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered
Harriet Harman
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I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.
Bobby McFerrin
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I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.
Bill Flores
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There were two views of how a polis was formed. The first was military: a scattered group of people came to live in one city behind a set of protective walls. The other was political: a group of people agreed to live under one authority, with or whithout the protection of a walled city. Synoikismos, or 'Living together', embraces both. Any political entity implies a population that recognizes a common authority, but the first 'city-states' were not always based on a city. Sparta makes the point. We think of Sparta as a city, but the Spartans were proud of the fact that they lived in villages without protective walls: their army was their wall and 'every man a brick.
Alan Ryan
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Birmingham is very special for me because it is here that I found myself alive, seven days after I was shot... It is now my second home, after my beloved Pakistan.
Malala Yousafzai
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
Natan Sharansky
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...now her compassion had been pierced and set flowing; it felt as though her life's blood were running away.
Elizabeth Goudge
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You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho