Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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I like to do outdoorsy things: hikes, trails, running, swimming. I love the sun. I'm all about the warmth.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.
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Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.
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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
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Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
