Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
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Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
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I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
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While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.
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I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
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Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.
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Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.
