Austen Chamberlain Quotes

I wonder how many members can realise what the remilitarisation of the Rhineland means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the...peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.

Austen Chamberlain

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• Politicians
• Realise

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• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

  

  Ram Charan
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• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
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• If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Parker Stevenson
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• Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

  

  Kate O'Mara
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• I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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• I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
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• I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Funny
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• I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

  

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• Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Time
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• I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Writing
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• I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• One of Museveni's defining early pronouncements was his diagnosis of Africa's problem. Africa's problem, he would say, was leaders who did not want to leave power.

  

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• We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.

  

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• But you are mobile as the veering air, And all your charms more changeful than the tide, Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true.

  

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• Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
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• I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)

  

  Charlie Sheen
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• I love smart comedy.

  

  Jason Alexander
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• I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war. It doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone should do something. I'm looking around and, like, I am someone, and I might not be able to do everything, but I can do something.

  

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• Setting shouldn't just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It's not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
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• Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

  

  LL Cool J
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• I wonder how many members can realise what the remilitarisation of the Rhineland means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the...peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.

  

  Austen Chamberlain
  • War
  • Politicians
  • Realise