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Barbara Amiel Quotes

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: December 4, 1940

Topics

Liberty Destruction Share Complicity

I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.

Car School High School Remember Gym

I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.

Relationship Great Time People Think

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Children Raising Children Now Three

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.

Blessed Him Event Melancholy Been

The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial.

Time Internet Feel Interesting You

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

Mickey Spillane

Me Critics Up Used Themselves Tear

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.

Yourself People You Lose Acting Cry

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

Age Person Capable Only Convenient

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

Me Believe Find Said Authority Why

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

Health Water Drinking Water Human

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Music First Playing Started Sense

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Time Tomorrow Evening Poverty Will

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