Simon Beaufoy Quotes
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
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I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.
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With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.
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Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.
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We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.
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As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going to get hit in the mouth.
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When you think of the people who were important in your life, prettiness was not a factor. They might have been old, fat and toothless - but they were there.
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My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
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Maturity transformation is a central part of the economic function of banks and many other types of financial intermediaries.
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Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them.
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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
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It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man.
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A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
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If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! and the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.
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But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
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To govern the state by law is to praise the right and blame the wrong.
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One doesn’t question a miracle.
