Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
