Augustine Birrell Quotes
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
Ma Jian
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
Fiona Apple
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
Vin Diesel
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
Tadashi Shoji
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
Laura Linney
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In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls. – page 103.
Warren Farrell
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America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments in the world pariahs. We wash our hands of evil, declining to help despots finance their depredations, even at a cost to ourselves of some economic growth.
Jacob Weisberg
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When all the world is old, lad,And all the trees are brown;And all the sport is stale, lad,And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among:-God grant you find one face there,You loved when all was young.
Charles Kingsley
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If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?
Billy Donovan
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Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
Augustine Birrell