Linda Colley Quotes

Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of constitutional writing. The Petition of Right of 1628, like the Bill of Rights of 1689, was a cherished text. So, most of all, was Magna Carta.

Linda Colley

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I do have to thank my mother for my eyebrows.

Andreja Pejic

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I didn't act in college, per se, because I didn't want an acting degree. I don't know what you do with that degree. When I was 16, I saw 'Usual Suspects,' and I wanted to be a director as well. So I thought I should go to school for directing and producing, something I knew nothing about.

Mehcad Brooks

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It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'

John O'Keefe

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I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.

Tony Parsons

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My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

Rose Byrne

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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

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'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is great. Even though it's about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like.

Jon Watts

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Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

Chris Gardner

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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

Christopher Buckley

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I'd rather enjoy meals, order bottles of red wine and eat creme brulee at the end of dinner. Then, when they call you for a photo shoot, you just go, 'Okay, time to hit the treadmill.'

Armie Hammer

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God puts us in places. It's for you to make the decision whether you go left or right.

Tyga

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I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

Richard Powers

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