Enoch Powell Quotes
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.
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I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.
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The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.
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Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.
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There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.
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Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
