Ernest Gowers Quotes
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
Camilla Luddington
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
Barry Ritholtz
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
Aaron Eckhart
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
Floyd Abrams
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
Malala Yousafzai
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. Pritzker
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
Walter Jon Williams
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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
Carlos Ghosn
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
Ian Frazier
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
Kage Baker
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
Larry Wall
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
Leonard Cohen
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Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
Kevin Kline
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The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.
Pilou Asbaek
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Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.
Fred F. Fielding
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
Beatrice Dalle
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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
Kevin Costner
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I could never get a real good clear picture of what I could become.
R.A. Dickey
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I feel like when I'm working and when it's not my time off, I like working out alone because it's kind of like that time that my mind gets to just shut off and I can just focus on working on being a better boxer.
Gigi Hadid
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I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.
Ernest Gowers