Bernard Levin Quotes
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.
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Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.
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Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
