Thomas Cochrane Quotes
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
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The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.
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One of my most memorable moments serving the community was after I built the Live Civil Playground in Haiti, and I visited an orphanage and gave away shoes to all the kids. I also sat with them and helped them design their shoes. The smiles on their faces were priceless.
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I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.
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Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand...
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Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
