Elspeth Huxley Quotes
Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.
Elspeth Huxley
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
Lake Bell
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
E. P. Thompson
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
Viktor Orban
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
Talulah Riley
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
Gary Lineker
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
Tamara Tunie
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
H. R. McMaster
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The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.
Sam Smith
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
Daniel Barenboim
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
Tadashi Yanai
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The leaders of Europe always seem to emerge from the same elite, the same general frame of mind, the same schools, and the same institutions that rear generation after generation of politicians to this day. They take turns implementing the same policies.
Viktor Orban
