Neal Ascherson Quotes
Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.
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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.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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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.
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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.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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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.
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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.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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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.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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I love Costco.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
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Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.
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When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God.
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Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.
