Augustine Birrell Quotes
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Whether you have incredible products like at Apple or a great service business, it all comes down to fundamental trust and relationship-building with your customers.
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Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
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It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
