Edward St Aubyn Quotes
Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?Edward St Aubyn
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
W. H. Davies -
To be is to do.
Immanuel Kant -
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
Ed Koch -
In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
Becky G -
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
Edith Evans -
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
Finn Wittrock -
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth -
Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
Wendy Kopp -
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Life started getting good when I started making money.
Balthazar Getty -
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
Ikue Mori
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
Earl Weaver -
It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
Karin Slaughter -
I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
Kangana Ranaut -
But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
Lactantius -
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
Yochai Benkler
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
Edmund Burke -
I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.
Fred Korematsu -
I'm a cheap date.
Abi Morgan -
I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.
Pete Domenici -
Even if this person's girlfriend was a hateful bitch, you would sleep with her out of spite.
Chuck Klosterman -
Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
Edward St Aubyn