Damian Thompson Quotes
Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
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Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.
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India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
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Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and really work to master various subjects that come before my desk, I'm still not an expert on a huge amount of the stuff that we work on.
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Different countries have different kinds of financial structures.
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Clearly, countries expressed the wish to have more. But at least we have something to rely upon for the time being.
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Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
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The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.
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Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.
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As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
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We are jointly calling on both countries to refrain from further testing and to sign up unconditionally to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
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The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians
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That is the greatest match I've ever seen. It will be 120 years before you see another match like that.
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Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.
