Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

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• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

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• I'm not much of a jokester.

  

  Adam Baldwin
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• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

  

  Iman
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• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

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• I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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• The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

  

  Uri Geller
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• If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

  

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• It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.

  

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• You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

  

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• I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
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• I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

  

  K. A. Applegate
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• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

  

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• Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

  

  Nancy Paine Stoll
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• If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

  

  Dennis Ritchie
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• Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,

  

  W. S. Gilbert
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• To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Mind
  • Nothing
  • Holmes