Julian Baggini Quotes

Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.

Julian Baggini

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Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life' was the first one I ever saw. Three pregnant women in a maternity ward and their misery - I love that. That is what I want to show at my funeral.

John Waters

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'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you love it to pieces, obsessively.

Simon Rattle

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Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

Shirley MacLaine

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There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

Russell Crowe

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I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

Luke Evans

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Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

Jose Maria Aznar

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We took the brains out of the set-top box and put it in the cloud. Having our software in the cloud gives consumers the ability to click their remote control and navigate through thousands of choices in a simple and elegant way. That's magic.

Brian L. Roberts

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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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I have watched people around members of the royal family for a long time now, and something very strange happens to them. They turn into sycophants.

Penny Junor

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I can pretty much say that because of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, that's why I do what I do today.

Scott Adkins

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Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

Thundercat

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We have not been asking the serious questions about the future of our species, questions sci-fi regularly explores by showing us the best and worst of what could be.

Nick Sagan

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