A. N. Wilson Quotes
It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
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My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
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At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.
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The daughter never ever gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie there so strong that nothing can break it.
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I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
