Piers Corbyn Quotes
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
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I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would help our enemies.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.
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My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
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Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.
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Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.
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It is a cruel irony of history that he left at the moment he was most needed, the very moment he was expected to provide leadership in helping to settle the future status of Kosovo.
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Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
