Lynne Truss Quotes
In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.Lynne Truss
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
Irwin Thomas -
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
Camille Paglia -
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter -
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris -
My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
Yanis Varoufakis -
All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
Rachel Maddow -
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Eamon de Valera -
We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
Bai Ling -
I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
Gareth Gates -
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
Mamie Van Doren -
I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
Landon Donovan -
It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
Carlton Fisk -
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
Mandy Moore -
It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
Camilla Luddington -
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
Irina Shayk
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There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
Jonathan Safran Foer -
We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.
Andy Rooney -
The plant laboratories in which this wonderful and vitally essential transformation is effected are chiefly located in the leaf of the plant... the thoughtful person must regard this structure-the most ordinary green leaf of tree or shrub or vine or the tiniest blade of grass-as in some respects the most wonderful thing in the world.
Luther Burbank -
We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being disagreeable. Maybe extremist groups believe they can find a home in Montana because of our easygoing ways.
Max Baucus -
In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.
Lynne Truss