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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I did 'Rock of Ages' when it was in both L.A. and Vegas, playing the lead, Drew.
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I commend Julia for seeing how young and silly we were, even at the last minute, even as painful and as difficult as it was. Thank God she saw it.
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It used to be if you wanted to be a comedian, you used to just do sets. You'd go up three times a night, just get better, and then some people would see you and you'd do 'The Tonight Show,' and then boom, you're a comedian.
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I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.
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Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
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Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
