Conrad Black Quotes
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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I worked on 'Happy-Go-Lucky' for seven-and-a-half months, and I'm in it for two minutes - largely because Sally Hawkins turned left instead of right.
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I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.
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I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today. Whether I achieve it all the time, that's another question, because I don't think a person can produce at top level 100 percent of the time.
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I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
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The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
