Polly Toynbee Quotes

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

Polly Toynbee

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To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.

Joe Carnahan

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Having led many negotiations with countries outside the E.U. in the past, we would never enter the same compromises and reach the same good outcomes with states that don't shoulder the responsibilities and costs of the common market.

Angela Merkel

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Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

Ronnie Montrose

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Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

Ron Perlman

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I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.

Josh Silver

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Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.

Jordan Peele

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Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

Jonathan Ive

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Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

Conor McGregor

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I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe.

Cindy Sheehan

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Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

Brit Hume

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People go to work at Wall Street firms to make a lot of money. They may not love what they are doing, but the punishing hours and travel are incredibly well-compensated. By contrast, the engineers at technology firms do believe that they can change how we all live.

Richard Edelman

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I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

Mordechai Vanunu

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