Brian Urquhart Quotes
It was predictable he would not turn out terribly well as the head of a very very large and complicated and rich country...
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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You are lucky, that Modi is not here in Chennai. Otherwise they will blame you also. Otherwise they will blame the people of Tamil Nadu are not good, that they have, they are going to listen to Mr. Modi!
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Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 321
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
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Bring English tyranny to its knees.
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But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
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The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.
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It was predictable he would not turn out terribly well as the head of a very very large and complicated and rich country...
