John Bright Quotes
I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
John Moody -
Never mind. I knew - that was the great thing.
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Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.
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I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
