P. D. James Quotes
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
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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!
Walt Handelsman
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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.
Vernon Wells
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
Kapil Dev
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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.
Queen Elizabeth II
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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.
Gary Hamel
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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.
Camille Claudel
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
Nate Diaz
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
Jack Kerouac
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith
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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.
Kaskade
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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.
Palmer Luckey
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
Eartha Kitt
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
Beck
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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.
Candice Bergen
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
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Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
Billy Wilder
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The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organization is the province of economists. Internal organization is the concern of organization theory specialist. And never the twain shall meet.
Oliver E. Williamson
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Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
Mark Bittman
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A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?
Sabrina Jeffries
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The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
P. D. James