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Quotes by British Authors
"The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards."
"I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same."
"There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one..."
"Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization."
"When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others."
"If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate."
"Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter."
"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words."
"It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night."
"The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth."
"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."
"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery."
"After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together."
"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."
"In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them."
"Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."
"He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age."
"I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction."
"I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest."
"The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications."
"What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love."
"Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness."
"I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!"
"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
"I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment."
"At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety."
"I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science."
"It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood."
"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
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