Ernest Bevin Quotes
It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! … By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.
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I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
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One of the big things I've learned over the years and I'm excited that Glossier perpetuates is that wherever you're at, in terms of your scope of knowledge around beauty, is totally okay. And not just okay, but actually really valuable.
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I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?
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Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.
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I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.
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You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.
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I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
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For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'
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It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.
