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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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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Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'être.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.
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I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.
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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.
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How do you keep people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together.
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Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.
