Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quotes
Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
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I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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I would never do 'Playboy.'
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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I travel to a lot of schools, and I see firsthand that while we do still have a lot of traditional readers, we don't have as many as we used to. And we're missing an awful lot of kids entirely... Do I want to get rid of the Internet? Obviously, I don't want that because of all the amazing things it brings.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
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As young people, you want to see people who in some way look like you to some degree, because it makes it a little easier for you to aspire to take on the qualities of those people.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.
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Strong, not skinny, is now sexy, and long workouts are a thing of the past.
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How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is doing. It's spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every hour of every day of every week - all for your future!
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I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
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Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'
