Nigel Rees Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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I've tried to convince members of my party that we should not allow the hair on the backs of our necks to bristle every time somebody mentions renewable energy.
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We simply can't spend our way out of a recession.
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The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your ATM and pull out cash. And you can feel cash in your back pocket and have some tangible comfort there - but in reality, the majority of your money is a number on a screen.
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Warner Bros. is just this amazing historic studio that does great movies.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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I'm a weirdo. I don't leave the house unless I have to.
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There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone's laughing at the same thing, it's a really great experience.
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I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
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Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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Burglars! Good gracious!' cried the little woman, springing from the bed in one bound. The word 'burglar' was a terrible one to her, as it is indeed, to every well-constituted woman. 'Robbery' does not sound nearly so awe-inspiring.
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We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.
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Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.
