J. B. Priestley Quotes
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I think political correctness is a moving line.
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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
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Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
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Only ignorance excuses stupidity
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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
