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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When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.
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My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'
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That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.
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It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.
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Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word 'text' unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?
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Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
