Denis Healey Quotes
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus -
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.
Camille Paglia -
The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
Earl Blumenauer -
I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
Parminder Nagra
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
Imre Lakatos -
I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.
Karen Robards -
If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.
Barry McGuire -
All social movements would gain immensely in enthusiasm, persuasiveness, and wisdom if the hearts of their advocates were cleansed and warmed by religious faith.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time ... human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
Isaac Asimov -
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel -
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Be very afraid…
Libba Bray -
There is no religion higher than truth.
Helena Blavatsky -
I don't want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.
Charli XCX -
When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
Matt Bomer
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I'm always going with my visceral reaction when I read a script. I am more drawn to characters who are conflicted, and in developing a character exploration. If it's a baddie, I'm rarely intrigued, and if it's a goody two-shoes - too much of a good guy - I'm not, either.
Alexander Skarsgard -
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
Emily Carr -
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
Jacqueline Bisset -
I'm just a laid-back person.
Cassie -
Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
Beau Bridges -
On BBC Television's Panorama programme (22 January, 1968).
Denis Healey