Polly Toynbee Quotes

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

Polly Toynbee

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IslamReasonSuperstitionBetween

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

Stanley Kubrick

MeYouTakeSuckerFourteen

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

DreamsKnowledgeMindRoadRoyal

I had a ball on 'Soul Train.'

Rosie Perez

SoulTrainBallHad

I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

Doug Liman

FatherCharacterHeartHistoryReal

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

Claude Debussy

ChildWishI WishNaiveInterior

If you do right, everything will come out right.

Wolfman Jack

YouWillRightEverythingOutCome

One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.

Pitbull

BeautyMusicMeNightLos Angeles

Sometimes you do a film because the script is amazing, sometimes you do it because you get to work with amazing people, and sometimes you do a film because they pay you money.

Sean Patrick Flanery

WorkMoneyPeopleAmazingYouPay

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

FutureAlonePastMindPresentLust

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

MenVirtueTalentsNaturalAmong

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

Tim Berners-Lee

HopeValueInternetYouFindGo

The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour, and spend far too much time trashing the other guy's ideas in favor of our own.

Rick Tumlinson

PowerTimeHeroSpaceIdeasMoon

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