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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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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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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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.
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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
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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 love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
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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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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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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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I don't sit down to write a country song. I don't sit down to write a rap song. I just sit down to write a song, you know what I mean? And I try to make that song the best it can be.
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The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.
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The NBC using us on air is a great endorsement of quality.
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.
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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...
