Anthony Hecht Quotes
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
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When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?
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Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.
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I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.
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Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.