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.
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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.
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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.
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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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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.
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I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.
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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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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.
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The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
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All social movements would gain immensely in enthusiasm, persuasiveness, and wisdom if the hearts of their advocates were cleansed and warmed by religious faith.
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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.
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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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I had always previously really fed off of negativity and enjoyed being the guy who everybody hated.
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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music.
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By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
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On BBC Television's Panorama programme (22 January, 1968).
