Nicolas Gomez Davila Quotes
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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I was born free.
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And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.
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I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
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Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.
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The difference between that which is ascribed to God and that which is ascribed to man is expressed in the words... 'And your ways are not my ways.' (Is. lv. 8-9)
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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...words were said that could not be put right again...
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What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.
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The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
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Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
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Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
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To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.
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With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.
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It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.
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Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
