Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood Quotes
Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
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It's good to be sexy, but when that's all they can see - no.
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The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
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I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.
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I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed out, but 3,000 school kids from Sydney walked out and protested. And I organized it from my mom's office at work. And I was 12.
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Mercenary is whoever thinks less of his work than of the money he receives for doing it; and social conditions which impose tasks that make this inevitable are barbarous.
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Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
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I know from my own counselling that anger always has hurt at its core.
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Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.
