Philip Pullman Quotes
'We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,' said the witch, 'or die of despair.'
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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The tours are campaigns.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
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You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.
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He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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What’s going on in this country is insane. And we have people running our country that don’t know what they’re doing, they’re grossly incompetent, and it’s time. We have to make change, real change. Not Obama change, we have to make change.
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'We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,' said the witch, 'or die of despair.'
