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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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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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
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By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
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I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.
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The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.
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Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.
