Eric Linklater Quotes
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Colson Whitehead -
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
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Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
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But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.
