Peter Ackroyd Quotes
All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.
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Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes.
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I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.
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All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.
