Max Hastings Quotes
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a musician, around the same time. The good news is, I was probably 17 when I knew that's what I was going to do with the rest of my life, no matter what that meant.
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'Falling Skies' is not just about aliens attacking. It's also about humanity, survival, hope and the determination to rebuild our world, starting from pretty much nothing.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Competitions are for horses, not artists.
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A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
