Alec Issigonis Quotes
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.
Alec Issigonis
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
Mac Thornberry
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
U2
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
Uta Hagen
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
Damien Hirst
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So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.
Olga Fonda
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My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
Gail Collins
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I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
Mahmoud Darwish
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
Larry McMurtry
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We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.
Serena Williams
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
Xenophon
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Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.
Linda Cardellini
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The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.
Elaine Stritch
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Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.
Xenocrates
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A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.
Alec Issigonis
