P. D. James Quotes
I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?
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When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
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There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
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What's a hero if not for its journey.
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Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
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It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.
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要使文艺很好地成为整个革命机器的一个组成部分，作为团结人民、教育人民、打击敌人、消灭敌人的有力的武器，帮助人民同心同德地和敌人作斗争。
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I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.
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Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.
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Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.
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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
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President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.
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I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.
