Douglas Hurd Quotes
We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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When reason rules, money is a blessing.
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Between the ages of five and nine I was almost perpetually at war with the educational system. ...As soon as I learned from my mother that there was there was a place called school that I must attend willy-nilly-a place where you were obliged to think about matters prescribed by a 'teacher,' not about matters decided by yourself-I was appalled.
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We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
