Arthur Wellesley Quotes
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.
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A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
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I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.
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We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup's 'Q & A'. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers.
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It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
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It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
