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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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
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My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
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If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me- I was a father.'
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Boys will be boys—And even that ... wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
