Gerrard Winstanley Quotes
If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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As a matter of fact, that was a bit of a problem for me at the beginning of my career - the problem of identification. In The Conversation I played a character who was gay, so nobody recognised me from American Graffiti. When I did Apocalypse Now, after Star Wars, I played an intelligence officer of the American army. George Lucas saw the footage I had done and didn't recognise me until halfway through the scene.
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The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.
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For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.
