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!

Margaret Mitchell

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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.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

  

  Carl Jung
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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.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

  

  Wael Ghonim
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• The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

  

  Jack Adams
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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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• Your dreamers may dream it The shadow of a dream, Your sages may deem it A bubble on the stream; Yet our kingdom draweth nigher With each dawn and every day, Through the earthquake and the fire 'Love will find out the way.'

  

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• I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.

  

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• Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

  

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• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

  Eddie Perez
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• Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
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• 'You’re a poet too, aren’t you? And a good liar, I bet.''I was the Autarch of Urth; that required a little lying, if you like. We called it diplomacy.'

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Good
  • Liar

• 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!

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Wonderful
  • Souls
  • Liar