Harold MacMillan Quotes
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
Gary Numan
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Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
Victor Webster
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Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
Rachel Platten
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I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
Barbara Fialho
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
Jack Valenti
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If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.
Kate O'Brien
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Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah’ and charpoy...
Anthony Burgess
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I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?
Jessica Biel
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I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
Connie Stevens
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My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic, inspirational, and emotional - a 20 goosebump experience.
David L. Wolper
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In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.
Brian Behlendorf
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I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.
Alexi Zentner
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Books come from within.
Kevin Henkes
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I've always felt like I belonged, and you need affirmation every now and then.
Jimmy Walker
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Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.
Bobby Scott
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I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
Alan Arkin
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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
Mark Haddon
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As we settle into 2013, I predict this: We'll see companies that promote this shift from private ownership thrive. More people will be able to access things they simply don't need to own, and they'll save money and live better, cleaner, green lives doing it.
Lynn Jurich
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There's a couple guys that I'd like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.
A.J. Styles
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I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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Never tell your wife she's bad in bed. She'll go out and get a second opinion.
Jack Roy
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No one is strong in himself, but God gives strength.
G.A. Henty
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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
Lord Byron
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan
