Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson -
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
Barry Eisler -
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
Barbara Kruger -
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
Harold Bloom -
At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
Magnus Scheving -
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.
Quavo Migos -
I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.
Francesco Quinn -
I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.
Patrick Chan -
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
Sam Harris
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Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.
Damon Lindelof -
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover -
It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.
M. Stanton Evans -
On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
Yelena Baturina -
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
Allan Sloan
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I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
Caroline B. Cooney -
I have realised that my time has come and gone. I'm not bitter, just a realist.
Jasper Carrott -
Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.
Albert E Cliffe -
The apparent widespread abuse of loans provided through the Supplemental Terrorist Activity Relief Act is nothing short of an outrage.
Olympia Snowe -
Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
Arthur Conan Doyle