Harold Pinter Quotes

I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.

Harold Pinter

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Germany has got to deal with its global responsibilities in a mature way. There has been insufficient thought to immigration law, and we need to differentiate between different kinds of migrants. There are valid refugees whose lives are at risk at home.

Joe Kaeser

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The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

John Ambrose Fleming

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I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

Matt Groening

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E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

Tom Hanks

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Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.

Monica Johnson

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New York is really the cheapest ad market. When I go on TV, I'm hitting a country. The market is as big as some countries, you know.

Mitch Leigh

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In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. It was originally just an Italian summer festival, but for the past 14 years, there's also been a spring festival in America.

Joshua Bell

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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

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I enjoy being out; I like being around people, but at a certain point in time, I kind of run out of charming, and I'm ready to go home, and I'm very comfortable alone.

Doug Ducey

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Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

Clayton M. Christensen

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I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

Ashley Greene

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In 2005, I would have never guessed that I was at risk for a pulmonary embolism. I was 21 years-old, playing college soccer and just living the dream.

Ali Krieger

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