If we had 70.0 dollars per barrel on oil prices in the midst of a recession, I would be very worried, but 70.0 dollars when the world economy is growing at over 4.0 percent is not such a big worry.


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I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contempora...
JULIAN FELLOWES
The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike...
JULIAN CASTRO
For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
JULIAN BARNES
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we...
JULIAN BOND
My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would h...
JULIAN CASTRO
Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all ju...
JULIAN CASTRO
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call fl...
JULIAN BAGGINI
Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you f...
JULIAN BAGGINI
The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through t...
JULIAN BAGGINI
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one...
JULIAN BAGGINI
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue th...
JULIAN BAGGINI
My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL
We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept...
JULIAN CASTRO
Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards i...
JULIAN BARNES
She found him propped against a wall, clearly very severely injured.
JULIAN SMITH
I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w...
JULIAN PETERSON
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment i...
JULIAN BAGGINI
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, th...
JULIAN BARNES
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek ...
JULIAN BAGGINI
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is...
JULIAN ASSANGE
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE
Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where...
JULIAN BAGGINI
I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intr...
JULIAN OVENDEN
I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a differ...
JULIAN BAGGINI
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
JULIAN BARNES
The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th...
JULIAN BARNES
You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin...
JULIAN BARNES
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES
The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES
Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
JULIAN BARNES
I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall...
JULIAN SCHNABEL
I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat...
JULIAN SCHNABEL
I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going...
JULIAN BOND
I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.
JULIAN OVENDEN
It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.
JULIAN CASTRO
No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not ...
JULIAN BAGGINI
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
JULIAN ASSANGE