Grenville Kleiser Quotes

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Grenville Kleiser

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EffortMindLazinessBodyWillDays

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

Jo Brand

PeopleYouWithinBehaveExpectGet

I wanted to find a way of life that allowed me great freedom, not to be stuck. I went to a very traditional school, which prepared people for the army or for banking or for industry, and I wanted to be outside of that.

Jeremy Irons

LifeFreedomGreatSchoolPeopleMe

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Maximilien Robespierre

HumanityCrueltyForgivePunishThem

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

John Major

PoliticsGovernmentPeopleSituation

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Anita Brookner

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I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

Amanda Palmer

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Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

Steven Hatfill

TrustGovernmentWarSocietyYou

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Michael Ondaatje

RelationshipMindBookPatientOnly

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

Michael T. Flynn

FearCountryPrinciplesSetBuilt

My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.

Constance Wu

FamilyCommunityChildrenSchoolYou

Pharma companies don't have a direct relationship with consumers, so they're always subjects.

Anne Wojcicki

RelationshipAlwaysConsumersDirect

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.

Tom Brady

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