Decca Aitkenhead Quotes
I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.
Decca Aitkenhead
Quotes to Explore
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ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.
Ulrich Walter
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It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
Lisa Unger
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Sphinxes without secrets.
Oscar Wilde
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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Oscar Wilde
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
Oscar Wilde
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch
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American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened to me. George thought my character should have a crew cut, but I wasn't happy with that idea. I'd always had pretty long hair back then - in college, particularly - so I told George my character should wear a cowboy hat. George thought about it and he remembered a bunch of guys from Modesto, California, who cruised around, like my character, and wore cowboy hats, so it turned out that it actually fit the movie.
Harrison Ford
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I could have asked my father lots of questions. I could have. But there was something in his face and eyes and in his crooked smile that prevented me from asking. I guess I didn’t believe he wanted me to know who he was. So I just collected clues. Watching my father read that book was another clue in my collection. Some day all the clues would come together. And I would solve the mystery of my father.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
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I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.
Decca Aitkenhead
