Brian Lara Quotes
This is going to be my last time in New Zealand and I want it to be peaceful, but I wish the media had a little bit more respect for West Indies cricket.
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
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In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
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The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.
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This is going to be my last time in New Zealand and I want it to be peaceful, but I wish the media had a little bit more respect for West Indies cricket.
