Eamon Duffy Quotes
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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No one person is an island.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
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The importance of the egg's non-nuclear material - the cytoplasm - in early development is apparent in the consistent relation that is seen to exist between certain regions in the cytoplasm of a fertilized egg and certain kinds or directions of cell differentiation.
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Being awesome makes me hungry.
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Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
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From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips. If so, we can also understand the whole of history as a process of improving the efficiency of this system through four basic methods:
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Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
