Aneurin Bevan Quotes
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
