Alfred Nobel Quotes
The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
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If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.
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Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.
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I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.
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The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.
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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
