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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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
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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...
