Alec-Tweedie Quotes
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
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I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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We have a responsibility to be aware of others.
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A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.
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I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.
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He is called the horse.
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The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.
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I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I'm still learning. It's exciting.
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The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.
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Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.
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We don't have to be in the lead, or get the publicity for everything we do. What's important is that we pull out all the stops to leverage every way we can make a difference when people are in great need.
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I really wanted Rachel [from the Girl on The Train] to be purely fixated on fantasy and on her ex-husband.I didn't want her to be embarking on romance, touching people; I wanted her purely in the realm of fantasy and frustration and dreaming and sadness.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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If the materialistic west is a civilisation without a heart, as we are accustomed to regard it nowadays, ours, on the other hand is one without a soul.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
