Douglas Hurd Quotes
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.
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If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.
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Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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There's a lot of different styles of hypnosis. There's conversational hypnosis, which, even though we joke about it, politicians use conversational hypnosis. I've been hired back at home in Ireland by certain politicians to assist them in specific language patterns that will just tip people over into their, you know, into their zone.
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It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
