Neal Ascherson Quotes
Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.Neal Ascherson
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
Wayne Rogers -
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman -
I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Yitzhak Shamir -
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
Patricia Marx -
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper Lee
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston -
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel Johnson -
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
Rachel Kushner -
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana Maharshi -
To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
Gary Jennings -
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
Quentin Tarantino
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
A. J. P. Taylor -
I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
Wayne Rooney -
Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
Oliver Tambo -
I love Costco.
Gary Johnson -
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
Vera Wang -
I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
Gabrielle Zevin
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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
Vanessa Marano -
No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.
Amitava Kumar -
I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote "other" to support my particular taste.
Jill Soloway -
All right we are two nations.
John Dos Passos -
Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.
Neal Ascherson