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Small: I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out
Victoria Beckham
"I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out"
Victoria Beckham, Musician
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Small: If you havent got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
Victoria Beckham
"If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!"
Victoria Beckham, Musician
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Small: I keep fit by running after my three boys all day
Victoria Beckham
"I keep fit by running after my three boys all day"
Victoria Beckham, Musician
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Small: Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people wont think youre going gag
David Ogilvy
"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga"
David Ogilvy, Businessman
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Small: You fall out of your mothers womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave
"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave"
Quentin Crisp, Writer
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Small: Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are"
Quentin Crisp, Writer
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Small: Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps
William Blake
"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps"
William Blake, Poet
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Small: The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late 80s
"The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s"
Neil Tennant, Musician
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Small: All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is
Edward Bond
"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism"
Edward Bond, Playwright
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Small: Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of t
E. M. Forster
"Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
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Small: The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot
William Ralph Inge
"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot"
William Ralph Inge, Clergyman
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Small: What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of t
E. M. Forster
"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
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Small: A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cant sit on it
William Ralph Inge
"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it"
William Ralph Inge, Clergyman
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Small: At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes
E. M. Forster
"At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
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Small: He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience
"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience"
William Golding, Novelist
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Small: Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting
"Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting"
Ellen Terry, Actress
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Small: How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
Mary Astell
"How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?"
Mary Astell, Writer
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Small: Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake t
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
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Small: Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-ope
"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism"
Dora Russell, Celebrity
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Small: Law is a very addictive profession
"Law is a very addictive profession"
George Carman, Lawyer
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Small: Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul
"Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul"
George Carman, Lawyer
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Small: Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left
"Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it"
Imelda Staunton, Actress
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Small: But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"
George Canning, Statesman
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Small: Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated.
"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established"
Rudyard Kipling, Writer
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Small: I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble"
Rudyard Kipling, Writer
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Small: Genius is initiative on fire
Holbrook Jackson
"Genius is initiative on fire"
Holbrook Jackson, Writer
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Small: Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the oppor
"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so"
Doris Lessing, Writer
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Small: Confess and be hanged
Christopher Marlowe
"Confess and be hanged"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
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Small: As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen
Sydney Smith
"As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen"
Sydney Smith, Clergyman
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Small: Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didnt like the idea at all. In fact they wouldnt have any
"Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think"
George Martin, Producer
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Small: Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity
"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
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Small: The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain an agnos
Charles Darwin
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic"
Charles Darwin, Scientist
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Small: Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as Im sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another
"Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter"
Rowan Atkinson, Comedian
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Small: Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight
"Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight"
Samuel Richardson, Novelist
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Small: I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that c
"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
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Small: Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a pr
"Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off"
Richard Le Gallienne, Poet
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Small: He who laughs most, learns best
"He who laughs most, learns best"
John Cleese, Actor
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Small: A man will give up almost anything except his suffering
"A man will give up almost anything except his suffering"
John Cleese, Actor
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Small: If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path
Mary Webb
"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path"
Mary Webb, Novelist
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Small: I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbri
Paul Muldoon
"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door"
Paul Muldoon, Poet
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