Eddie Campbell Quotes
They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
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The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.
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'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.
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My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
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Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.
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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
