Melvyn Bragg Quotes

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

Melvyn Bragg

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MusicEverythingOperaArtsOnce

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

Jimmy Gomez

PeopleSufferingSeenSureMake

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

John Bolton

FreedomGreatStruggleCommunism

Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.

Sophia Bush

BetterEnoughYouKnowYoungWasted

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'

Robert D. Hare

LoveI Love YouCoffeeWordsDeep

Part of the Khmer Rouge project was not only to destroy individual people, but to destroy the very notion of the individual. I want to simply rebuild the stories of people - it's part of my fight against the Khmer Rouge agenda.

Rithy Panh

FightPeopleWantProjectIndividual

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

Ruth St. Denis

GodYouAllahUrgeWhichRhythmic

I do acupuncture. Because it really helps. It is the opposite of Botox. Botox blocks, and acupuncture moves.

Monica Bellucci

OppositeBecauseBotoxAcupuncture

At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I could play at church.

Lizz Wright

MusicChurchPlayPayPianoGoing

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

Jon Bon Jovi

SuccessMusicThinkCruiseCritics

My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

LifeEducationFatherChildrenGreat

I grew up really being able to stand up to authority.

Winnie Byanyima

Stand UpStandAuthorityUpBeing

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.

Richard Eyre

I AmPeopleWorldThinkQuietSay

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