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If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.

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A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that's the type of thing they do that I find offensive.

Jim Inhofe

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I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

Anatoly Rybakov

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The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

John Keegan

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I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.

Amy Carlson

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If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

Rory Bremner

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Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

Michael W. Smith

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I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Julia Child

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Real power is having the ability and the resources to tell an amazing story or to say 'yes' to a filmmaker and change not only the filmmaker's life but the world.

Donna Langley

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I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

Debbie Harry

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The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.

Christopher Guest

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Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

Christopher Hitchens

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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

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