Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.
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The war in Iraq has fractured the political will of the United States and the world.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
