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The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations. ↗

— John M. Ford

#audience #deliberately #dislike #expectations #goes

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am. ↗

— Willa Ford

#bad #cheerleader #come #i #i am

After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend. ↗

— George Foreman

#because #better #companion #dog #dogs

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#being #being famous #certain #famous #field

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal. ↗

— Brad Thor

#along #be different #being #being different #books

If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#asks #good #i #i always #me

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#betraying #between #choose #country #friend

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#could #existed #friends #get #i

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#appendage #assembly #came #criticisms #five

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#country #discussion #freedom #i #independence