Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
Helen Dunmore
Recitation: by Male by Female
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Dalberg-Acton
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My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.
Jennifer Garner
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George Lopez is always on the verge of hilarity. If he could ever think of something funny to say, if he had a funny thought in his mind, he's ready to go.
Andy Kindler
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.
Amitava Kumar
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Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title.
Simon Beaufoy
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We have far too many Tudors. Henry VIII is far too over-rated. He's become the ultimate brand name, like the Marks & Spencers of a high street of British history. I'm more interested in King Herod.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
HistoryKingBrandNameStreetHigh
I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a jump shot or for the parent-teacher meetings. I can move tasks around. If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.
Tom Perez
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Television has changed. Some feels like good old-fashioned TV, and some of it feels more filmic and more natural and more nuanced. I don't think there's any clear line any longer between film and TV.
Robin Weigert
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He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham
MenManWisePeopleSpeakThink
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
Michel Foucault
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To me, rock and roll is not a perfect science.
LP
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