Douglas Hurd Quotes
But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles.
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I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.
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How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.
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But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.
