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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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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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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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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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I'm very lucky.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.
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Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that?
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
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We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
