Alan Clark Quotes
John Pilger: I read that you were a vegetarian and you are seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Alan Clark: Yeah. John Pilger: Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?Alan Clark: Curiously not.Alan Clark Dire Straits
Quotes to Explore
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Van Morrison -
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
Manfred Mann -
Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.
Jacki Weaver -
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo -
Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
F. W. de Klerk
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I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
Gary Cole -
I loved going to superhero films growing up - you come home, and you pretend to be those people, and it ends up informing much of what you aspire to be. And that's what I will say is important about the genre.
Mahershala Ali -
My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
Jackie Speier -
I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.
Jack Dee -
I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.
Fran Kranz -
I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
Kate Winslet
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Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania numquam:nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.
Ovid -
I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.
Parker Palmer -
In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.
Tad Williams -
My countrymen, the surpassing war of all times has involved us, and found us utterly unprepared in either a mental or military sense. The Republic must awaken. The people must understand. Our safety lies in full realization the fate of the nation and the safety of the world will be decided on the western battlefront of Europe.
Warren G. Harding -
It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
C. S. Lewis -
I'm definitely not as good as people who consider themselves beatboxers.
Phillipa Soo
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Dear brothers and sisters, I have often thought of how the Church may render more clear her mission to be a witness to mercy; and we have to make this journey. It is a journey which begins with spiritual conversion. Therefore, I have decided to announce an Extraordinary Jubilee which has at its centre the mercy of God. It will be a Holy Year of Mercy.
Pope Francis -
A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
Madeleine L'Engle -
I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.
Katherine Kelly -
Roxy was just going too safe, and at the time I was also a bit pissed off at the business—not with playing, but with the people in it.
Paul Thompson Roxy Music -
John Pilger: I read that you were a vegetarian and you are seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Alan Clark: Yeah. John Pilger: Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?Alan Clark: Curiously not.
Alan Clark Dire Straits