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Russell T. Davies Torchwood Everything Changes

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• Be obscure clearly.

  

  E. B. White
  • Funny
  • Obscure
  • Clearly

• Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Way
  • Quiet

• I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Freedom
  • Expression

• We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Family
  • Want
  • Walking

• You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • You
  • Romantic
  • Lead

• I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Always
  • Minutes

• I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • World
  • Writing

• Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • She
  • Proud

• We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Good
  • Guy

• People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Want
  • Telling

• Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Today
  • Man
  • Learning

• New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Idea
  • Independence

• I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Good
  • Me
  • Advice

• My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Life
  • Important
  • Better

• Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • You
  • Swing

• Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties – of that, in fact, which is spiritual? And that the means which we employ to induce this revelation are those very senses and faculties themselves?

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Art
  • May
  • Spiritual

• I cannot think of a system of law that dehumanizes & degrades women more than Islamic Law.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Women
  • Law
  • Islamic

• I always ask the question: As more Africans are going online, are they finding content that is meaningful and relevant to them, or are they just consuming from everywhere else. As Africans, we have the capacity to generate our own content.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Question
  • Meaningful

• Losing the ability to make these distinctions is one sign of what psychoanalyst William Niederland called “soul murder.” Erasing awareness and cultivating denial are often essential to survival, but the price is that you lose track of who you are, of what you are feeling, and of what and whom you can trust.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Trust
  • Psychoanalysts
  • Soul Murder

• Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name. “Does your mother call you Pigeon?” “No.” “Then to me you are Paul.” ... “Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read. “My mother never calls me Nathan.” “Is it Nate?” “She calls me Honeylips.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Mother
  • Teacher
  • Pigeon

• Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

  

  Emily Procter
  • Mom

• While I prefer generally more personal dramas in which I can stretch myself... and while I'm not a science fiction buff, I consider '2001' a great film, absolutely enthralling; at 'Star Wars' I had a fabulous time, and, at 'Alien,' while it was a silly story, I was knocked out.

  

  Yvette Mimieux
  • Time
  • Great
  • Science

• Russell T. Davies Torchwood Everything Changes

  

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