Anthony Hope Quotes
Boys will be boys—And even that ... wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
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Conforming is not cool.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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If you're not mindful about sugar, high sugar intake is just the worst thing for you, but I'm, like, everything in moderation, and that's how I approach it.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.
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My English is good because I have a good ear.
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I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.
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Now he had form and substance. He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago. But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain circles - middle-class circles - it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. Anarchistic. Shameful.
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The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!
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…the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Happiness is not pleasure - it is victory.
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It's time for America to get right.
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All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".
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I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.
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She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.
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I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.
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Boys will be boys—And even that ... wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
