Carroll Quigley Quotes
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
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I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don't see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.
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The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
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You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
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Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.
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Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
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The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
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I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.
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Allison Jones, a big casting director out there, was like, 'They're casting 'The Daily Show' right now - you should submit a tape.' I remember leaving school to go shoot an audition.
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By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.
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It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.
