John Betjeman Quotes
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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I always drive like a madman.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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At the north-eastern angle is the chapel, an uncommonly hideous relic of late Victorian times.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all.
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
