Ernest Bevin Quotes
Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.
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If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
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God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world.
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There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.
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I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.
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I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
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I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.
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I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.
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Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
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Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
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Aping Urbanity, Oozing with Vanity Plump as a Manatee, Faking Humanity Journalistic Calamity, Intellectual Inanity Fox News Insanity, You're a profanity Hannity
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Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.
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It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Men should come with instruction booklets.
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Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
