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Quotes by English Authors
"Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did."
"I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way."
"I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any."
"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them."
"While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio."
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
"Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now."
"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."
"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."
"However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University."
"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."
"Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value."
"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."
"I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place."
"The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future."
"I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept."
"I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing."
"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself."
"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."
"I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right."
"I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks."
"I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting."
"If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it."
"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."
"It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'."
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
"Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church."
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