Alfred Denning, Baron Denning Quotes
A fiduciary duty to one's brothers is not something that need bind the hand of any man if he can satisfy the Court on the balance of probabilities that, through his actions, he would get some.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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The general market wants what I do.
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Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.
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When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
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Heal me, oh Lord, I will be healed. Save me, oh Lord, I will be saved. Bless me, oh Lord, I will be blessed. Free me, oh Lord, I will be free
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I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!
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I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
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A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
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Women can do nothing that has permanence.
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We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
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Reason is the Soul of the Law.
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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.
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A fiduciary duty to one's brothers is not something that need bind the hand of any man if he can satisfy the Court on the balance of probabilities that, through his actions, he would get some.
