Anthony Malcolm Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) Quotes
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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Cryptoeconomics is so fascinating to study because it's a combination of technology, economics, and psychology.
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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.
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He wanted to live without distractions; he wanted to focus all the life-force he had left on this last book. But now it was hard to concentrate. There was something new in his life. There was the painful distraction of desire.
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There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
