Peter Benenson Quotes
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.Peter Benenson
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
Barkhad Abdi -
The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
Karl Rove -
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes -
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
Hamid Karzai -
Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
Malcolm McDowell -
I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
Usain Bolt
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
Bainbridge Colby -
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney -
The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
Barbara Corcoran -
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
Olivier Martinez -
I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
Dana Perino -
I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
Sally Mann -
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor -
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
Hamilton Jordan -
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar -
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Dale Dauten -
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
T. S. Eliot
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I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
Kathy Acker -
There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.
Jason Chaffetz -
Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.
Andrew O'Hagan -
I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.
Jacqueline Bisset -
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
Peter Benenson