A. P. Herbert Quotes
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There is always pressure in football.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add sufficient value to the corporations in the U.S.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.
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I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.
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If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.
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I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.
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Getting into a space suit and going outside, to me, getting your peripheral vision involved and looking at the Earth was a whole different experience than looking through the window. And it's kind of the same on earth. If you're driving in a car and you see like a beautiful sunset or landscape, it looks so much better if you stop and get out and kind of take it all in and that's kind of what it's like doing a spacewalk.
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Let's stop somebody from doing something!Everybody does too much.
