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Michael Bond Quotes

I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: January 13, 1926

Topics

Flying Paris Go More Than Much

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

John C. Calhoun

Government People Majority Most

I'm a very competitive person... I've run 12 marathons! I kayaked around Manhattan 29 miles in October! I ran the Berkshire Hathaway 5K! And I want every part of the business to compete - and play to win.

Business Win Person Play Want Run

Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.

Racism People Color You White Down

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

Work Identity Without Just Much

I really get excited when we win. I get really upset when we don't, and I hope that still has a place in the NFL.

Hope Win Place Upset Excited Get

Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

Douglas Rushkoff

Social Media People Media Party Lost

The best advice I ever got - and it's the best advice I'd give anybody - is just don't believe the word 'no.' Be persistent. Persevere. Keep going. Never, ever, ever give up.

Best Keep Going Believe Advice Never

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

I Am People World Problems Solution

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Love Secret Pleasure Ceases

I'm all about tucking in T-shirts.

Antoni Porowski

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Work Children Persistence Experience

My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine teach me centering prayer, based on Father Thomas Keating's work. That led to practicing different kinds of meditation off and on as I got older.

Life Work Friend Father Prayer Mom

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