Aneurin Bevan Quotes
The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.
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The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.
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The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
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I've been on my grind to be the best player I can.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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'Everything I know about the Iranians I learned at the pool room,' Graham said. 'I met a lot of liars, and I know the Iranians are lying.'
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And if you don't know? Now you know, nigga.
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I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me.
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His capital is continually going from him in one shape, and returning to him in another, and it is only by means of such circulation, or successive exchanges, that it can yield him any profit. Such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating capitals.
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Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
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In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules.
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Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a society like Afghanistan or Iraq is suspicious of outsiders and often resistant to change. I am not going to get drawn into the ethics of intervening in other countries. My concern is the practical question. Can you actually achieve change in this way? My guess is we can stop wars sometimes as in the Balkans and topple regimes - but that the other stuff - such as corruption is not within our power to effect and alter.
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Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.
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There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.
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The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.
