P. D. James Quotes
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
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If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.
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But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
