John Lanchester Quotes
'Whoops!' was a spin-off from 'Capital.' I had the research and wanted to place it somewhere.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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I want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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I only understand realism.
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I've been acting since I was 5, literally since I could walk, and I've always said, 'I think one day I have to be in a fat suit.'
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Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
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We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
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Human beings will justify anything.
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But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.
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I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.
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I apologize to those of you I offended for coming out against the Ex-Im Bank. I'm not changing my mind on it, but I just wanted to let you know I apologize for that.
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'Whoops!' was a spin-off from 'Capital.' I had the research and wanted to place it somewhere.
