Noel Annan, Baron Annan Quotes
Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.
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I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.
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We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
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I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.
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Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.
