Daniel Hannan Quotes
In an atmosphere when anyone can close down the conversation by saying 'I feel uncomfortable', rational discussion becomes impossible. The empirical method, the basis of Enlightenment civilization, no longer applies.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
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Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
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Not everything that’s beautiful is weak.
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She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
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No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
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I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.
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I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'
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The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.
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In an atmosphere when anyone can close down the conversation by saying 'I feel uncomfortable', rational discussion becomes impossible. The empirical method, the basis of Enlightenment civilization, no longer applies.
