Arthur Ransome Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.
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My fans can see me grow up.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
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Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
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Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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In politics, guts is all.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.
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If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
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You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
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To me, there is no greater calling … If I can inspire young people to dedicate themselves to the good of mankind, I've accomplished something.
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A pigeon a day keeps the natives away
