Jonathan Powell Quotes

Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.

Jonathan Powell

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Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

Angela Merkel

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If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

Townsend Harris

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I wanted to re-examine stories people think they know without the rose-colored glasses of Hollywood and let the audience decide for themselves if people like Wyatt Earp were sinners or victims of life circumstances.

Travis Fimmel

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I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

Tom Clancy

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Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

Mary E. Pearson

TimeCuriousWorldDecisionsFirst

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

Mary Ellen Mark

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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell

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I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!'

Alice Walker

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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

Wislawa Szymborska

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The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.

Piet Mondrian

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I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year.

Sebastian Thrun

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I like thrash metal and black metal, stuff like that.

Ty Segall

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