Miranda Raison Quotes
My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.
Quotes to Explore
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If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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My work is a game, a very serious game.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.
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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
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It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live while I'm alive It's my life
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I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
