Emilia Wickstead Quotes
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I'm a real romantic.
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Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
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I never go wild with nails.
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Movies are great, TV is great.
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I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn't matter who you are, and that's truly what I believe.
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You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.
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Red lipstick aside, I firmly believe that less is more in terms of make-up.
