Cyril Connolly Quotes
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
Cyril Connolly
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
Jack Lowden
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
Carl Honore
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
Vernon Wells
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
Walter Kirn
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
Safra A. Catz
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
Gabrielle Union
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
Ada Lovelace
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Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.
Pauly Shore
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
J. I. Packer
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Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!
Clara Barton
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Barbara Ehrenreich
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
Cyril Connolly
