E. M. Forster Quotes

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

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• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

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• I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

  

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• Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

  

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• It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

  

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• Food is important for me, but as a restaurant group, to expand, you know, we have to look where the best market are - where the best markets are.

  

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• I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

  

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• To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

  

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• There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.

  

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• I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

  

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• I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.

  

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• I like Chris Christie. I like Jeb Bush. I like those guys.

  

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• When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.

  

  Charles Barkley
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• My worst hairstyle was a bowl cut parted down the middle. It was the '90s. It was what you did. I had that from 4th grade until freshman year in high school. I'm glad the pictures exist. I had great hair back then.

  

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• To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.

  

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• I'm not a bro.

  

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• I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

  

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• My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

  

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• I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

  

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• Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

  

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• It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

  

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• The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Homeless