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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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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Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
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I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.
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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.
