Denis Healey Quotes
What almost halved the support for the Labour Party was the feeling that it has lost its traditional common sense and its humanity to a new breed of sectarian extremism.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
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The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.
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It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.
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It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.
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At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and it was just for kids. I read it every week. And I got paid for it. So I thought... 'I can actually do this. I can get paid to write, and this is going to be fine.' I wrote several pieces for them.
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What almost halved the support for the Labour Party was the feeling that it has lost its traditional common sense and its humanity to a new breed of sectarian extremism.
