Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Quotes
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
Walter Jon Williams
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We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.
J Allard
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I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
Laura Moser
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Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
Frank Zappa
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The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.
Bryan Adams
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If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
Amy Poehler
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Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
Ohtaka Shinobu
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They may change their view but I will not at this point in time, ... We will win this case.
Eliot Spitzer
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God appeared to His people in the Old Testament and dwelt with His people in the New - and now abides in us by His Spirit.
David Jeremiah
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I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.
Vivienne Westwood
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It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.
John Stuart Mill
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute.
Erich Heller
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden
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'We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.' Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy.
Barack Obama
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Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.
William Hazlitt
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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill