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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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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When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.
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In my 10 months as prime minister, I made seven trips to Kashmir. Militancy reduced greatly during the UF rule.
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If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.
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Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.
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In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?
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Boys will be boys—And even that ... wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
