Carol Ryrie Brink Quotes
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.
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I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.
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Everybody's a specialist.
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The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.
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We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
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I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.
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Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.
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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
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As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
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A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
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We have learned nothing from the genome.
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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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The slant of sun would slowly steepen towards mid-day, then lengthen as it slowly fell away.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
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The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
