 Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject. Author: A. A. Milne
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| If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. Author: A. A. Milne
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| You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. Author: A. A. Milne
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| And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
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| But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| You have to trust your body to take care of you. Author: A. J. Langer
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| I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world. Author: A. J. McLean
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| Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible. Author: A. J. McLean
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| We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. Author: A. J. Muste
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| I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. Author: A. N. Wilson
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| I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer. Author: A. Whitney Brown
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| I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget. Author: Aaliyah
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| I have the time needed to support the album and tour. Author: Aaliyah
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| I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing. Author: Aaliyah
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| If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing. Author: Aaliyah
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| You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday. Author: Aaliyah
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| If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain? Author: Aaron Allston
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| I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first. Author: Aaron Brown
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| Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it. Author: Aaron Carter
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| But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| When it gets down to it you just have to act. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students. Author: Aaron Klug
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| The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| We have, essentially, a worthless democracy. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| I just sing. You have to use it. Author: Aaron Neville
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| It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great. Author: Aaron Neville
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| So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday. Author: Aaron Neville
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| We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men. Author: Aaron Neville
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| Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. Author: Aaron Siskind
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| We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Author: Aaron Siskind
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| It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows? Author: Aaron Spelling
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| I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we? Author: Aaron Spelling
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| It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. Author: Abba Eban
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| History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. Author: Abba Eban
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| Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. Author: Abba Eban
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| Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow. Author: Abba Eban
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| It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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| You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors. Author: Abbott L. Lowell
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| You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done. Author: Abbott L. Lowell
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| Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. Author: Abdallah II
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| I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity. Author: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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| In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear. Author: Abdolkarim Soroush
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| Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? Author: Abdul Kalam
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| To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| You have to dream before your dreams can come true. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy. Author: Abdul Qadeer Khan
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| I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred. Author: Abdul Qadeer Khan
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| Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing. Author: Abdul Qadeer Khan
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| But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| We have now recently launched the national integrity plan. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads. Author: Abdullah Ibrahim
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| Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam. Author: Abdurrahman Wahid
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| The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it. Author: Abdus Salam
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| I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players. Author: Abe Lemons
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| If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. Author: Abigail Adams
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| If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. Author: Abigail Adams
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| We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Author: Abigail Adams
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| Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. Author: Abigail Adams
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| If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose. Author: Abraham Clark
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| Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. Author: Abraham Cowley
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| Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Author: Abraham Flexner
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| Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Author: Abraham Flexner
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| A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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| A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Avoid popularity if you would have peace. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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