Hartley William Shawcross Quotes
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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I don't watch TV.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
