Alexander the Great Quotes
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
Samuel Barber
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
A. S. Byatt
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A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.
Anna Sui
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The dish that changed my life was tom yum kum. You start with a pot of water, add lemongrass, lime leaves, lime juice, coriander, mushrooms, and shrimp; ten minutes later, you have the most incredible, intense soup.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.
Mark Ronson
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To please the many is to displease the wise.
Plutarch
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I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'
Harry Lloyd
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The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials
Michael Schudson
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Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.
Kate Elliott
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In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.
Thomas Harris
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O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
Alexander the Great
