Samuel Barnett Quotes
With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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You have to be yourself.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
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I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.
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With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.
