Auberon Waugh Quotes
The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.
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I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
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Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong.
