Edward St Aubyn Quotes
Of course it was wrong to want to change people, but what else could you possibly want to do with them?
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Women just love to shop.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
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I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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You can drive.” When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case.
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If you ever think about me, and you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on your mind if you're not going to work for the people.
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Of course it was wrong to want to change people, but what else could you possibly want to do with them?
