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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.


Shel Silverstein
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Stanley Baldwin
Tags: Politics You Will
I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.
Khloe Kardashian
Tags: Just Would Never
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.


Fridtjof Nansen
Tags: Never Keep Line
As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.
Tommy Lee Jones
Tags: Work You People
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I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.


Daniel Day-Lewis
Tags: Never Were Other
Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.
Patrick Modiano
Tags: Up Them Never
I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.
Brian Mulroney
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The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.


Francis Thompson
Tags: Know How Only
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Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.


Kevin McCarthy
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Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.


Tracy K. Smith
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau
If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.
John Gurdon
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.


Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Tags: Great War People
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
Anthony Trollope
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Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.
Marvin Harris
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I've been told I've done a lot of flop movies. And I think, 'Wow, I've never considered them flops!' I've loved every character I played.
Robin Wright
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I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.


Philip Kearny
Tags: Old Against Order
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
Patrick MacGill
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