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Quotes by English Authors
"So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story."
"Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men."
"I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all."
"It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way."
"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
"Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy."
"The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses."
"Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue."
"I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war."
"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair."
"Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?"
"It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like."
"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."
"We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality."
"Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure."
"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on."
"When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low."
"I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along."
"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man."
"I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though."
"I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits."
"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
"On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers."
"I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory."
"English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite."
"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."
"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."
"Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds."
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."
"Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!"
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