Douglas Hurd Quotes
It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Zoltan Kodaly
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
Manmohan Singh
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
Nathaniel Rich
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Ida B. Wells
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
Tanya Tucker
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
Oscar Levant
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
Marat Safin
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
Sam Hunt
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
Sam Hunt
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
Olivier Theyskens
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
Rachel Kushner
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
Pam Dawber
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That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.
Scott Westerfeld
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
Lewis H. Lapham
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
Gabriela Sabatini
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For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.
Kevin Macdonald
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I grew up knowing about Ted Bundy because I grew up in Aspen and that is one of the places he kept escaping from. I remember one of the times he had escaped the Pitkin County Jail, my stepfather sat outside with a shotgun because everyone knew Bundy had escaped and so everybody was on alert.
Boti Bliss
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It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.
Douglas Hurd