Denis Healey Quotes
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
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It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.
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I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you're doing it the way I do it.
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The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.
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There is a massive gender imbalance on TV
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For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a song that's so perfectly designed for a scene on 'Rescue Me,' we'll play it on loud speakers during the shooting. It helps the cameraman and it helps the director, and it helps the actors know what the feel is.
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Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak
