Melvyn Bragg Quotes

Craig has explored the darker recesses of 007's psyche. He has shown us the lonely man. And he has shown him falling truly in love.

Melvyn Bragg

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I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.

Jeff Buckley

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I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

John Shirley

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The state of Washington calls tips 'wages.'

Tom Douglas

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Just take yourself back to September 2001. As that month went on, and as that autumn unrolled, everybody wanted to do something. How can I help? Do you want my blood? Do you want money for the victims? I was a captain in the Marine Corps. I knew what I could do. I was right there. I was ready. I saw it. I moved the rubble with my own hands.

Rob Riggle

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My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.

Ron Cooper

RegretProcrastinationOne WordUp

My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.

Michael Weatherly

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Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Michael Medved

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I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

Mitski

MusicCareNewEmotionAnything

It's really important for me to have Italian-Americans and Jersey in a positive light.

Diane Ruggiero

PositiveLightMeImportantJersey

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

Anthony Burgess

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Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

Prudentius

GoldMoreHungerGreaterMade

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

Peter Abelard

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