Anthony Burgess Quotes
‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
Anthony Burgess
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In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
Narendra Modi
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Army life don't agree with me.
Eddie Slovik
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch Spinoza
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If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don't eat.
Octavia Spencer
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I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
Cameron Diaz
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
Waylon Jennings
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Turning 90 is not for sissies.
Jerry Lewis
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
Wen Ho Lee
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I'm trying every day, when I meet a new human being, to not have the first thought that comes into my mind be, 'Are they going to like me?' I'm allowed to say, 'I like this, and I don't like that.'
Keegan-Michael Key
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Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.
Walter de La Mare
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... but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
Anthony Burgess