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When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
Prince William
Time
,
Amazing
,
Help
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. Truman
Good
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Human
,
Thought
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Stephen King
Money
,
Great
,
Best
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
David Herbert Lawrence
Happiness
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Live
,
Blessed
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
Henry Miller
Work
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War
,
Failure
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph Addison
Life
,
Happy
,
Important
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Theodor Adorno
Life
,
Despair
,
Lived
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley
Life
,
Book
,
Him
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
Rush Limbaugh
Change
,
Health
,
Government
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
R. Kelly
Life
,
Music
,
Good
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.
E. O. Wilson
Live
,
Plan
,
Realize
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole
Life
,
Secret
,
Interested
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Madeleine Albright
Change
,
Women
,
School
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
Elayne Boosler
Women
,
Men
,
Thinking
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow
Nation
,
Unless
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Peace
,
Human
,
Affairs
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Alice Walker
Experience
,
Society
,
Movements
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
Truth
,
Made
,
Mad
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
William Hazlitt
Life
,
Home
,
Another
Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.
Chris Rock
Everyone
,
Mine
,
Favorite
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
Louise Erdrich
Love
,
Rainy
,
Lived
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
John Polkinghorne
Life
,
Here
,
Universe
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving
Life
,
History
,
Woman
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Washington Irving
Men
,
Society
,
Together
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
Shaun White
Best
,
Happy
,
Game
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Time
,
Lonely
,
Snow
For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.
Mark Zuckerberg
Work
,
Time
,
Business
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Life
,
Alone
,
Another
I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.
Ellen DeGeneres
Time
,
Sleep
,
Political
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Desiderius Erasmus
Wife
,
Single
,
Doubt
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