Wilfred Burchett Quotes
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.
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I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.
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I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.
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I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.
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Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
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My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.
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We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while Labour just use the NHS as a political football. We won't let them; we'll always fight for the NHS.
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We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.
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Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
