Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
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As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.
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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
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When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
