Katharine Viner Quotes

Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.

Katharine Viner

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I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.

Andrew Haigh

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I was an appalling person to teach. At 14, I was pretty advanced. I would read all the books in a few minutes, and I was bored. It must have been awful for a teacher to have a bright boy who's giving them his undivided indifference.

Robert Rinder

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It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

Matt Smith

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I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

Tom Sizemore

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It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

Ron Shock

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I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.

Claire Danes

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The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

Annie Besant

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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Allan Bloom

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In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

Alice Barrett

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God does things on his time. He wanted me to sit down and wanted me to get some other aspects of my life back in order.

Tyron Woodley

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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Noam Chomsky

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I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.

Mark Billingham

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