Joyce Grenfell Quotes
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking.
Joyce Grenfell
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
Pankaj Mishra
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
Randeep Hooda
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
Tariq Ali
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
Nancy Farmer
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
Ian Watson
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
Gary Sherman
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations.
Nathalie Emmanuel
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Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.
Frances Beinecke
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I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy
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Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.
Laura Mennell
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One of the interesting things about the 'Decameron' itself was it was written in the Florentine dialect as opposed to the Latin vernacular - and that was mainly to have it be a piece of literature for the people as supposed to some kind of highfalutin' canon.
Jeff Baena
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It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!'
Tyler Joseph
Twenty One Pilots
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If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.
Lucas Black
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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
Mandy Patinkin
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
Ferdinand Mount
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I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking.
Joyce Grenfell
