George Brandis Quotes
As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
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Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.
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I'm willing to work with all parties to reform Indonesia.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.
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As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.
