Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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You look marvelous!
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.
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Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
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The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.
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I think we find that it's most helpful when we have both of our brains applied to an issue.
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It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.
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It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
