Melvyn Bragg Quotes
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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.
Ian McShane -
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.
Gaby Hoffmann -
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.
Samuel Johnson -
I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.
Hank Snow -
The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
Fidel Castro -
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
Gavin DeGraw
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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.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Aaron Carter -
You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
Cameron Diaz -
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.
Omari Hardwick -
It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
Oriana Fallaci -
I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
Naftali Bennett
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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.
Rafael Nadal -
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.'
Natascha McElhone -
I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.
Kat Dennings -
The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
Florentijn Hofman -
There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
Adam Driver -
I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.
Taslima Nasrin
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At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
Frances McDormand -
I don't get that with the nannies. What's your point if you have a child and you aren't raising it?
Rozonda Thomas TLC -
Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.
Umberto Eco -
It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.
Niccolo Ammaniti -
I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.
Melvyn Bragg