Arthur Ransome Quotes
She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge...
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
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Nobody had song titles that were as long as ours. A lot of it was just inside jokes.
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There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
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It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.
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One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.
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She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge...
