Rory Stewart Quotes
Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
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I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.
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I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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I'm trying to bring back 'Top of the Pops.' I don't know why us artists haven't just stood there and said, 'Let's back a campaign and bring it back,' because it would be the most amazing thing ever. 'X Factor' has got the Sunday show, and except for 'Later with Jools Holland,' which is a massive success, there isn't one music show.
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As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.
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As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.
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We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.
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I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.
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..when writing a biography, you can't trust certainties. Just as you're about to pounce on something that will condemn you to a tidy answer, pooooofff! It vanishes.
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Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.
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Now, democracy should be robust but it certainly shouldn't be violent, and I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.
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Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
