P. D. James Quotes
A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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I really love peace and quiet.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.
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Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.
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A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
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I love apple juice.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.
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Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
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A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
