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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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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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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We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
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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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I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.
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Now I alone sit by the fire,And one remains of three;For two have got their heart's desireAnd left their grief to me.
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It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
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I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
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I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.
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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.
