Very Quotes
38661 quotes by 14131 authors
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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the…
— Leon Askin
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
— Julian Assange
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The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.
— Julian Assange
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That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting…
— Julian Assange
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
— Kate Atkinson
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but…
— Kate Atkinson
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to…
— Chinua Achebe
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I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
— Rowan Atkinson
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and…
— Rowan Atkinson
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel…
— Chinua Achebe
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
— David Attenborough
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light…
— Chinua Achebe
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I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of…
— David Attenborough
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that…
— David Attenborough
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I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
— Margaret Atwood
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I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
— Margaret Atwood
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I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
— Margaret Atwood
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that…
— Chinua Achebe
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