Alastair Campbell Quotes
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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A veces lo que deseo y lo que no deseo se hacen tantas concesiones que llegan a parecerse.
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I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.
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Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days. And so now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
