Melvyn Bragg Quotes
The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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I'm not good at the protocols of dating. laughs I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were 'dating'-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
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'The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.'
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Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong.
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I know that there is one additional thing that I've learned and that is that what Harvard does and says has an enormous resonance that goes beyond Zip code 02138.
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I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
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Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
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With all the things that have occurred in this country in the past couple of years, we want to assure people that this is an isolated, specific event, not of any random nature.
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The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.
