Norman Angell (Sir Ralph Norman Angell) Quotes
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
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I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
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Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.
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I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".
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There are different parts of us. You want to feel safe but you want to also feel challenged.
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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.
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Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
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God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
