Winkie Pratney Quotes
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
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Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women’s bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.
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…jumped-up commercials pretending, too late, to be the ruling class..
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When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.
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I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.
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I'm such a foodie.
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I've never been a very flashy person.
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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
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The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.
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The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
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People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.
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I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I'd also love to do a dramatic piece. It's really just whatever you read and take to.
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
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Every Christian a missionary; every non-Christian a mission-field.
