Mary Whitehouse Quotes
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
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It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.
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By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.
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I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
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Who said last, 'A cleaner New York-school is Up To You?'
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The turtle trapped 'twixt plated decks Doth practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
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To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.
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Moi ! moi qui me suis dit mage ou ange, dispensé de toute morale, je suis rendu au sol.
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Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
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Del Piero is known for his sense of humour. He once joked that if Lippi does not convoke him to the World Cup in Germany, he would 'run him over with his car and sink his damn boat'.
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I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
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AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.
