Anton Walbrook Quotes
I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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Robbery is common.
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History shows that any attempt by government to interfere in the consumption of salt is always extremely unpopular.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
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The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'
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I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.
