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Richard Jefferies Quotes

The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work.

Richard Jefferies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: November 6, 1848 - August 14, 1887

Topics

Work Impossible Believe Bad Find

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

Friends Most Impressed Them Overly

The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Good Greed Better Wall Street Going

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

Anderson Cooper

Struggle I Am Conflict World Places

You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else.

Selfish You Working Somebody Percent

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

Ideas Flying Energy Think You Kind

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Alive Build Out Principle Stuff

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

American Peaceful Nothing More Than

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

Pizza You Looks Want Over Point

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

Myself Stand Up Tough Stand Never

As a general principle, the American people would be well served by the active pursuit of effective policies to support longer-run growth in productivity.

Growth Support People American Well

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

Play Try Years Through Things Get

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.

People Me Law End Conversation Up

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