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  • We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
  • When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.
  • I have heard some say... that such [homosexual] practices are allowed in France and in other NATO countries. We are not French, and we are not other nationals. We are British, thank God!
  • Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
  • A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
  • In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
  • The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
  • I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride would never have allowed me to.
  • The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
  • Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly, you're never allowed to complain again. And I do, and we all do. But now I look at things a little differently.
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  • Billy Graham A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Jung Chang Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Douglas Adams Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Lawana Blackwell He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Ouida In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Peter Ustinov A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Bertrand Russell A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William S. Burroughs After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Toni Morrison All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • John Maynard Keynes America must not be allowed to pick out the eyes of the British Empire.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Alex Cox And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Baz Luhrmann At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Bernadette Devlin Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Odenkirk David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.
    Bob Odenkirk
    American actor, comedian, director, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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