Andrew Marr Quotes
Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!
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Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?
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Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
