Margaret Mitchell Quotes
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
Quotes to Explore
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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As I've seen over and over again during my career, the best way to deter individual conduct is the threat of going to jail. That's what truly changes behavior. That's what changes the calculus as employees and executives decide whether to participate in an illegal scheme.
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I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
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The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
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Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
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I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.
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I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
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I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
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I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or that such attention suggests that black men and women feel sorry for themselves.
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In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.
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A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.
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How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
