E. P. Thompson Quotes
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
