H. W. Brands Quotes
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
Sam Altman -
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine -
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus -
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Malcolm Fraser -
I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
Laura Marling -
Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
Kate Williams
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
Oprah Winfrey -
The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.
Ziad Doueiri -
Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Taylor Caldwell -
In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
LaTanya Richardson -
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
Saint Augustine
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
Daisy Ridley -
Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
Daley Thompson -
Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
Xavier Niel -
It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
Fay Wray -
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
Barbara Mikulski
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
Tadashi Yanai -
Personally, I don't wear fur.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I had an economic system imposed on me.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.
Winifred Holtby -
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Publicity is the engine of politics
H. W. Brands