Martin Jacques Quotes
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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Thank God for Skype!
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. Once you investigate that, you find out that Disney's dog Pluto was sketched the same year the cosmic object was discovered. And Pluto was discovered by an American.
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Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.
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We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.
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Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.
