Hal Roach Quotes
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn't know what I was doing.
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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.
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I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn't change me in the depth of my being.
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I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.
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I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.
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You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.
