Alec Waugh Quotes

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

Alec Waugh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 8, 1898 - September 3, 1981

Topics

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Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

John George Nicolay

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Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

John O'Hara

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I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.

Robert H. Grubbs

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I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.

Michael Che

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Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Tom G. Palmer

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Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.

Robbie Robertson

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At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer.

Roky Erickson

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I always take an Alastair Sawday guide. I stayed in three or four places in India that they had recommended, and every one of them was wonderful.

Diana Quick

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I think you can be terribly overexposed. I've been always very careful in my career to do theatre; it takes you out of the television eye, and people are glad to see you back again.

Denholm Elliott

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But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.

Clarence Thomas

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Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

Pink

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I enjoy acting, and I would love to do a play in the future.

Shenaz Treasury

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