Eric Butterworth Quotes
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I like risky stuff.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
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When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and girls who are currently being held in military camps. Obviously, both of these are incredibly important goals, but it's also essential that we not forget about former child soldiers once they are liberated.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.
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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
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Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.
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Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas and close the shatters, and he would go down the path and on to the village. To these two life had come quickly and gone, leaving not bitterness, but pity; not disillusion, but only pain.
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And all my days are trances,And all my nightly dreamsAre where thy grey eye glances,And where thy footstep gleams - In what ethereal dances,By what eternal streams.
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Lo pagado con nuestra vida nunca es caro.
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In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.
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If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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All the female characters in 'The Gifted' are stronger than the men. We're not waiting around to be saved but spearheading the missions.
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There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.
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One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
