Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
Collis P. Huntingdon
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
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They loved him more than me . I would have nailed Bond .
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JOSH HUTCHERSON You nailed it. You couldn't have done it any better.
JAKE GOLD
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P. CHIDAMBARAM The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
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P. CHIDAMBARAM People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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P. CHIDAMBARAM It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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P. ORDESHOOK Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
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P!NK I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
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MASTER P The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
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MASTER P So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
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TARAJI P. HENSON
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a p...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. LOVECRAFT The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne...
P. J. O'ROURKE The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
SALMON P. CHASE What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
SALMON P. CHASE The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several pa...
SALMON P. CHASE All men are born equally free.
SALMON P. CHASE Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the inte...
SALMON P. CHASE What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which...
SALMON P. CHASE The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am read...
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SALMON P. CHASE
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the wor...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and ...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly h...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the g...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
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SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has i...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
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SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
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SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
I feel like we all have our skeletons.
TARAJI P. HENSON
I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
TARAJI P. HENSON
With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you,...
TARAJI P. HENSON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
I'm nothing without God.
TARAJI P. HENSON
Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
TARAJI P. HENSON
I don't ever want to feel complacent.
TARAJI P. HENSON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON
I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
TARAJI P. HENSON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
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TARAJI P. HENSON
At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
TARAJI P. HENSON
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W. P. KINSELLA I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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W. P. KINSELLA Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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W. P. KINSELLA If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. KINSELLA I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it...
W. P. KINSELLA I don't believe in the afterlife.
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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. MORGAN
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. MORGAN
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J. P. MORGAN
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. MORGAN
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty...
J. P. MORGAN
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. DONLEAVY
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. DONLEAVY
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. DONLEAVY
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season,...
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One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
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P. T. BARNUM
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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JAMES P. HOFFA
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P. T. BARNUM
There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
P. T. BARNUM
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P. T. BARNUM
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
P. T. BARNUM
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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P. N. ELROD Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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P. L. TRAVERS Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw...
P. L. TRAVERS I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
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P. L. TRAVERS I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
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P. L. TRAVERS Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P. J. HARVEY My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'...
P. J. HARVEY I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
P. J. HARVEY There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ...
P. J. HARVEY People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. HARVEY It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore...
P. J. HARVEY Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. ...
P. J. HARVEY I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like ...
P. J. HARVEY There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. HARVEY People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B...
P. J. HARVEY I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. HARVEY I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it di...
P. J. HARVEY I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information...
P. J. HARVEY I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni...
P. J. HARVEY I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca...
P. J. HARVEY I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
P. J. HARVEY
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thou...
P. G. WODEHOUSE
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I...
P. G. WODEHOUSE
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. WODEHOUSE
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to...
P. G. WODEHOUSE
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, b...
P. G. WODEHOUSE