Michael Foot Quotes
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
Quotes to Explore
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.
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I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.
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The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.
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I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.
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I'm not putting pressure on myself, all I know is I want to do music.
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He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.
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I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?
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Cycling is an activity which more and more young people are getting involved with, whether they are using their bikes to get to school or work, socially, or cycling as a sport. Cycling is cheap, it's quick, and it makes you look and feel great!
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Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.
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The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
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I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.
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He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
