Margaret Drabble Quotes
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
Margaret Drabble
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
Nathan Gamble
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
Naomi Klein
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
Vince Cable
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
Barton Gellman
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
Ralph Baer
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren Buffett
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
Mac Davis
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
Kate Christensen
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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As ships becalmed at eve, that layWith canvas drooping, side by side,Two towers of sail, at dawn of dayAre scarce, long leagues apart, descried.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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There's going to be a big impact there for a number of weeks. It's big enough to show up in the national statistics.
Ben Bernanke
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther
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Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
Elizabeth Berg
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Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.
John Waters
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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
Margaret Drabble
