Kingsley Amis Quotes
Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I was tested against the best.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.
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If a model is going to make some shoes, she's going to make them comfortable.
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Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.
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Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
