P. D. James Quotes
I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.
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A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.
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I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
