George Orwell Quotes

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

George Orwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

Topics

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I'm not cerebral in any way. Education, for me, was a nightmare. You put someone talking in front of me, and I cannot engage with that. I think that's why I'm an actor; if I can physically be in it, I get it.

Jodie Whittaker

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My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Jerry Seinfeld

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I'm not violent.

Jeremy Renner

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Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Robert MacNeil

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When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go.

Michael Douglas

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More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

Amy Sedaris

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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Siegfried Sassoon

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Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.

Robert A. Dahl

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Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.

Rudolf Steiner

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I started out producing theatre in New York.

Jason Blum

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I don't love L.A. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I'll stay in those places.

Josh Hartnett

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I'm pretty tough and picky when it comes to actors that I admire.

Brie Larson

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