Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.
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Henry Miller was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.
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The financial crisis of 2008-09 made for a highly unsatisfying morality tale. It devastated struggling borrowers with weak credit ratings, while leaving the financiers who created exploding monstrosities like synthetic CDOs relatively unscathed.
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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
