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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
Georg Simmel

Life, Time, Person

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.
Kevin Rudd

History, Past, Human

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
Zach Braff

Before, Felt, Guys

No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered.
Kevin Pietersen

Mind, Down, Turn

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.
Kathleen Turner

Play, Desire, Roles

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.
Mike Pence

War, Reality, Economic

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
Matt Damon

Before, Year, Movie

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.
Matt Damon

Business, Movies, Nice

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
Britt Ekland

Thought, Idea, Theatre

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
Louise Brown

Down, Everyone, Dancing

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
Placido Domingo

Boy, Toys, Constantly

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.
Jared Diamond

Land, Wild, Animal

When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; 'you should really consider this'.
Kenny Loggins

Change, Money, Book

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.
Frank B. Kellogg

Peace, Women, Men

At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'
Kristin Davis

Great, Done, Play

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.
John Key

Politics, Mean, Quite

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Work, Forget, Sure

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
Anthony Holden

Days, Story, Dying

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.
Derek Jacobi

Saying, Person, Two

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
Anita Roddick

Money, Business, Successful

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard

Books, Writer, Lover

I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
Sam Shepard

Character, Old, Become

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
Leslie Caron

Good, Regret, Enough

I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
Rufus Sewell

Play, Idea, Felt

The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.
Rufus Sewell

Down, Play, Dark

We've gotten probably 40 women who have offered to be surrogates.
Giuliana Rancic

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
Elizabeth McGovern

Matter, Hot, Works

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
Jane Rule

Political, Coming, Oppression

When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.
Alicia Silverstone

Amazing, Makes, Silly

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.
Freida Pinto

Everything, After, Huge

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