Baden Powell Quotes
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
Quotes to Explore
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.
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I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually understood as occurring in some kind of vacuum - because of slavery.
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Sharon's so-called two-state solution will be, let's say, twelve Palestinian enclaves, which will be called a Palestinian state. It will be connected by, perhaps, a series of bridges, tunnels, and highways, which can be cut off at any moment at the whim of the Israeli government or Israeli army.
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To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.
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It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
