Charles Hazlewood Quotes
I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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Governments interfere in the affairs of each other, when they conceive their own peace is endangered.
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Honour is the mysticism of legality.
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I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.
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In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.
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I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.
