Thomas Bulfinch Quotes
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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I love 'Glee.'
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I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
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ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
