Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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A lot of comedians are selfish.
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The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.
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Time is the wisest counselor of all.
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Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.
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It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.
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I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.
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I don't want to be jumping from team to team.
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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
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The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.
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The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
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The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.
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He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
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If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
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We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.
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If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
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You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
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With sport, we should sit back, enjoy. It's awesome to watch.
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O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.
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Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.
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A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
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Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
