Andrew O'Hagan Quotes

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

Andrew O'Hagan

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I am such a sillybilly that I embarrass myself all the time.

Jodi Balfour

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The empathy I found reading 'Heidi' and 'Little Women' is empathy we have as human beings that can feed all of our souls. We have our differences, but we're all so similar in our humanness. So those stories about young girls overcoming meant a lot to me and gave me hope.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

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Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.

Jeremy Heimans

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I am a deeply superficial person.

Andy Warhol

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In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

Michael E. Mann

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I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

Meryl Streep

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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Ambrose Bierce

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40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

Tom Lantos

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To be in a show like 'Miranda' that captures everyone's imagination is amazing, but it's hard when people can't see beyond that. I started travelling to North America because 'Miranda' was so popular in the U.K.; I always knew I wanted to challenge myself and not go for the obvious roles.

Tom Ellis

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I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.

Tom Folsom

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Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

Jules Verne

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I think people will always want to go see a movie, whether it's a comedy and you want to see it and laugh with people, or whatever.

Jonathan Levine

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