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Quotes by British Authors
"I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played."
"Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned."
"We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature."
"But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve."
"I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across."
"The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in."
"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system."
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
"Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others."
"All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty."
"I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me."
"There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way."
"Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground...All the same, it is His invention, not ours...All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden...An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula."
"Can you forgive her? Can you do that?There was no response.Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.And?And then you will be able to forgive yourself-and ask others to forgive you."
"I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests."
"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
"The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape."
"I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart."
"To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence."
"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well."
"Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents."
"To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations."
"A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be."
"When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less."
"You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that."
"With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights."
"That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand."
"[The devil] always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one."
"No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward."
"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved."
"Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft..."
"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
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