Arthur Koestler Quotes
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
Arthur Koestler
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
Barbara Corcoran
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
Kangana Ranaut
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
Adam Brown
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
Barry Ritholtz
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
Hannah Kent
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
T. S. Eliot
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
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When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'
Ted Cruz
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
Jack Lowden
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
Victoria Pratt
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
Viktor Orban
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One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.
Pamela Meyer
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It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
Saffron Burrows
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The alarm on my wife's phone is 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered,' so that's a great way to wake up.
Andy Grammer
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Mr. Romney is quick to uphold rules great and small. During primary debates, when his rivals spoke out of turn or exceeded their allotted time, he would sometimes lecture them. When supporters ask Mr. Romney to sign dollar bills or American flags, he refuses and often gives them a little lesson about why doing so is against the law.
Jodi Kantor
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I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
Claude Shannon
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If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.
Barbara Holland
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God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
Arthur Koestler
