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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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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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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I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)
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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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Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.
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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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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Belgium is a country with a split personality.
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Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.
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For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.
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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.
