Barry Humphries Quotes

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Barry Humphries

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The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Robert Heller

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Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

Simon Sinek

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Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

Robbie Fowler

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Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading or writing today.

Robin Sloan

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The thing that's always struck me about Coach Marinelli's defenses is how fast and aggressive they play.

Josh McDaniels

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If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

Jon Huertas

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Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'

Christopher Priest

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You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.

Anthony Scaramucci

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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Thomas Huxley

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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

Thomas Huxley

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For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own.

Norman Davies

GreatExperiencePeopleIdeasMatter

We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are.

Noah Hathaway

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