Polly Toynbee Quotes
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I still have a young attitude.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
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When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.
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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
