Elspeth Huxley Quotes
You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.
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I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.
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Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
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Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
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For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
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I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
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We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.
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People here had redwood trees in their backyards. You were never far from the infinite.
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Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
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When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.
