Jeffrey Archer Quotes
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.
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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.
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We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.
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If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
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In economics the tendency of theory to lag behind observation seems to be endemic, and, as theorists, few of us consider this to be a 'terrible state.' But as noted by Lakatos (1978, p. 6), 'where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.'
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The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
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Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue, and not fate: Next to that virtue is to know vice well, And her black spite expel.
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I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.
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Without the library, I would have been lost.
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Photography is without mercy - though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
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You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.
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I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.
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I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.
