Edgar Wallace Quotes
...mankind is not perfect, less perfect is womankind, and least perfect is that section of mankind which employs servants.
Edgar Wallace
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
J. G. Ballard
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
Hanya Yanagihara
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
Kacey Musgraves
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
Padmasree Warrior
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
Rafael Vinoly
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
C. J. Cherryh
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I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.
Jeffrey Zeldman
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Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.
Anderson Silva
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American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.
Clayton Christensen
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I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.
Luca Guadagnino
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I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.
Mary Ann Mobley
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I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12 and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but also my work as well.
Prince Harry
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
Oscar Wilde
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When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.
Ali Smith
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The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
Mona Simpson
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
Abby Wambach
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...mankind is not perfect, less perfect is womankind, and least perfect is that section of mankind which employs servants.
Edgar Wallace
