Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
John Keegan
Recitation: by Male by Female
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
Jo Nesbo
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From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.
Andrew Davies
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The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.
Matthew Desmond
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I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.
Angela Merkel
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Any wrestler who will piledrive Lawler and injure him like he did me gets five thousand dollars from me!
Andy Kaufman
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Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John Steinbeck
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
Ambrose Bierce
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I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.
Steve Forbert
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See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
Robbie Coltrane
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People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.
Miriam Margolyes
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The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
Dmitri Mendeleev
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If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.
Brian Eno
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