William Arthur Dunkerley Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.
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'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
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The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.
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'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Well, I don't like the UK. I haven't ever been a fan of the pound (sterling), and even though they are taking some steps in the right direction - more so than the US - in addressing some of their problems, I still think they're doing it much too slowly. So, I think that the pound will continue to lose value relative to some of these other currencies. I ultimately expect the pound to rise against the dollar, but that's not the best way to take advantage of dollar weakness.
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We don’t aspire to genetic unity, no matter what your propagandists think. The pursuit of optima leads only to local minima. We honour our errors. We actively seek persistent disequilibrium.
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I've always loved men.
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Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after youto keep men like this away from you. Mrs. Stevens: Well after this, let me run my own interference. It looks like the blockers are having all the fun.
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The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.
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And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.