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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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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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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That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.
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With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one’s logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.
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For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.
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Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was present at the events, and composed for the most part by unknown authors in the Greek language that Jesus never spoke, it is held up as the only true record of the Christ story.
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I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
