Winston Marshall Quotes
I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.'
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
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If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which is typically what people describe as being left-of-centre on social issues and right-of-centre on economic issues.
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Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.
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When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.'
