Simon Beaufoy Quotes
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
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There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.
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Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
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On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
