Geoffrey Howe Quotes
There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
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The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.
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Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
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I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.
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I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.
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The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light.
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If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.
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To return to the question of strategy...The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.
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Staying true to our goals, Question Bridge as a company and as a project is not singularly about black males. One of the things I'm so excited about Question Bridge is that my vision goes far beyond black males.
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There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.
