Augustine Birrell Quotes
There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
Augustine Birrell
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Irwin Shaw
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
Vikram Seth
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
Jack Davenport
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
Daniel Cormier
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
Fedor Emelianenko
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If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
Colin Baker
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Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.
Laini Taylor
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Most of the time you spend filming a show is time you spend without the cameras on, when you're not acting.
Allison Tolman
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They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.
Barack Obama
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Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very 'uniqueness,' 'separateness' and 'differentiation' make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home. Often more so than the foreign born who generally falls in with the established.
Emma Goldman
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There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
Augustine Birrell