Nicholas Monsarrat Quotes
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.
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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.
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If you’re a serious actor, you wouldn’t put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
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When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.
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We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.
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I love going to conventions, and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldn't normally go.
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At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.
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How can we say any one actor's work was better than another's?
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Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.
