Arthur Brisbane Quotes
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
Quotes to Explore
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
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They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.
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No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
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I’ve protected it the Nirvana catalogue from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.
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A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
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When surroundings change, we should also change how we make money.
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My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.
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I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.
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I embraced Hinduism because it was the only religion in the world that is compatible with National Socialism. And the dream of my life is to integrate Hitlerism into the old Aryan Tradition, to show that it is really a resurgence of the original Tradition. It's not Indian, not European, but Indo-European. It comes from back to those days when the Aryans were one people near the North Pole. The Hyperborean Tradition.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal. She was like an anoraksick. (A person who is both very thin and wears tragic anoraks.) I just made that up as a joke. Even though I am very upset I can still think of a joke.
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A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
