D. H. Lawrence Quotes
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
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Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.
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The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.
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There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.
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When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
