Len Deighton Quotes
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.
Quotes to Explore
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I love taking chances.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
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Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They're anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person's life when there are five individual women.
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We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.
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I think women love to read love stories.
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And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
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How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God; the sons of. the Irish and the daughters of the chieftains are to be seen as monks and virgins of Christ.
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Some feelings are to mortals givenWith less of earth in them than heaven;And if there be a human tearFrom passion's dross refined and clear,A tear so limpid and so meekIt would not stain an angel's cheek,'Tis that which pious fathers shedUpon a duteous daughter's head!
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People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.
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Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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Songwriting is something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.
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For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.
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Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.
