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		Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Billy Connolly 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pankaj Mishra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garth Hudson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				N. T. Wright 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tarsem Singh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Buck 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karel Reisz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		My ideal weight is 205, actually. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Philip Seymour Hoffman 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dickey Betts 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There seems to be no question that Mussolini is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Franklin D. Roosevelt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Executive leadership ultimately goes to the candidate wearing the biggest codpiece. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cintra Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. C. Ryle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Billy Connolly