William Golding Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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After you play a part, you think of it as your own.
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I'd always walk my girlfriend home, i'm too protective!
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
