Mike Leigh Quotes

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

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• It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

  

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• Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

  

  William Wycherley
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• I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

  

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• The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole book called A Taco Testimony, and though the title sounds light, it's a heavy book. It's about being working class and what kind of food is available to you that's cheap.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
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• Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers. And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum. That's the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.

  

  Alan Bersin
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• People always ask me what the trends are, but I’m not a believer in trends. Individuality is more important to me, to stand out and have the confidence to wear something you’re comfortable in - it just happens I’m comfortable wearing a suit!

  

  David Gandy
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• This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.

  

  David Garrett
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• I guess I could have a couple of secrets.

  

  Alex Mack
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• Gonzales incident happened last September 21. The announcement is September 28. This is not rush. In fact it was studied by the legal.

  

  Eduardo Ermita
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• Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.

  

  Will Champlin
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• Why you play with my heart and not show love consistently? I put my life on the line, you wouldn't take that risk for me Fucked up my trust, wish I could delete all our memories Keep poppin' these pills, I hope it take away my misery

  

  Polo G
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• I kind of got inspired by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

  

  Eliot Paulina Sumner
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• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.

  

  Jerry Bridges
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• They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling “prejudice.” What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism!

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
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• Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Trying
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• And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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• Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Inevitable