Linus Roache Quotes
In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I've been training quite hard.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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Journalism is a good place for any writer to start - the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.
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If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.
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In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.
