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Walter Bagehot Quotes

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877

Topics

You Tyranny Neighbor Talk Real May

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

Say Shut Up Up Just Rather Shut

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.

Family Brother People Growing Up

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

Dreams Someone Trying You Fast Out

We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries.

Great People India Difficulties Well

I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.

Life Tired Violence Want Crime Get

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Imagination Language Nobody Special

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

Business Chicken Got Before

I think what's good is that men are now realizing that life is not a buffet where you just get to pick and choose whatever you want.

Phoebe Robinson

Life Good Men Think You Choose

Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking this: Can this person add value every hour, every day - more than a worker in India, a robot or a computer? Can he or she help my company adapt by not only doing the job today but also reinventing the job for tomorrow?

Thomas Friedman

Today Day Job Value Tomorrow Help

What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.

You Congress Veterans Taught Could

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

Power War Democracy World Fighting

I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.

Love Loved Vegas Place Always

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