Melvyn Bragg Quotes
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
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My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'
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You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
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A person who complains that his children don´t treat him well, should recall how he brought them up.
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Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
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We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters just to see people in the theater watching the movie, and it was incredibly gratifying just to see the thing out there being watched by people. And the reaction was more than we could've expected.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.
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I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.
