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“Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.”
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“don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.”
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“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.”
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“I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world. His prose is, for me, awareness objectified-he makes the word new and thus the world.”
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“By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.”
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“I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.”
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“I've been involved in and out of the U.N. for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!”
Source : "Interview with Edward Luck, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. August 1, 2011.
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“Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.”
Source : "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.