Alexander Cockburn Quotes
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
Alexander Cockburn
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not Cinderella.
Valerie Trierweiler
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
Yves Chauvin
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Victoria Woodhull
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
Daniel Craig
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
Kate Middleton
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
Rand Paul
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
Ian St. John
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
Malcolm Turnbull
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
Yami Gautam
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
J. B. Priestley
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Though our own hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respect and ancient friendships. I have seen too many frightful proofs in court - the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!
Arthur Miller
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For Ghana to suggest that they will turn off the Internet, in addition to other countries that have done it like Uganda, Zimbabwe, DRC, Burundi, Chad and others, that's worrying.
Ory Okolloh
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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.
Emma Watson
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I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.
David Bodanis
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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
Saint Augustine
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
Alexander Cockburn
