Patrick Macnee Quotes
The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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If there's anybody who is recognized as the one guy who has stymied Alaskan development, it's Bill Clinton.
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In my case, of course, people had a lot of expectations, but that didn't pressurise me because I'm pretty confident about my musicality and my talent.
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There was that in the atmosphere of San Salvatore which produced active-mindedness in all except the natives. They, as before, whatever the beauty around them, whatever the prodigal seasons did, remained immune from thoughts other than those they were accustomed to. All their lives they had seen, year by year, the amazing recurrent spectacle of April in the gardens, and custom had made it invisible to them. They were as blind to it, as unconscious of it, as Domenico’s dog asleep in the sun. The visitors could not be blind to it—it was too arresting after London in a particularly wet and gloomy March. Suddenly to be transported to that place where the air was so still that it held its breath, where the light was so golden that the most ordinary things were transfigured—to be transported into that delicate warmth.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
