Roald Dahl Quotes

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Roald Dahl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990

Topics

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There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.'

Joe Biden

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Having spent many years working in New York's Chinatown restaurants early in my career, I have the utmost respect for the history and connection New Yorkers have with Chinese cuisine.

Andrew Cherng

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If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

Matthew Desmond

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Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

Maurice Druon

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Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Jean Monnet

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So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

Michael Beschloss

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The Egyptian FA have tried to persuade me to play for them, but all I'm dreaming about is the blue jersey.

Stephan El Shaarawy

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Being famous is a bit dangerous sometimes.

Stromae

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If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour... I'm there.

Tommy Lee

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For wellbeing to take hold, it's got to be something that individual team members are getting excited about in their own lives. It can't be something that a company is forcing top-down through hierarchical structures.

Tom Rath

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I've known him for years, and I am supporting Chris Christie for president. Whether he will, in the final analysis, be the president, I don't know.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

Michael Sandel

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