Douglas Hurd Quotes
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.
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Being an actor is wonderful and it's a lot of fun, but eventually you look old and you can't fit this or that. It's important to have other skills, be able to do other things, and to really learn how this business works and what it thrives on.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
