Douglas Hurd Quotes
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
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When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.
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The average Korean alive in 1945 was to a far greater degree the product of Japanese rule than the Choson Dynasty.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
