Huddersfield Video and Cine Club - Information about the club, its activities, and its annual Festival of Film. Includes programme, membership and contact details.
Lawrence Batley Theatre - Drama, music, dance and comedy. Details of their programme, the history of theatre in Huddersfield, and opportunities to get involved.
Music Mill Studios - Brief information about the studio, classes and workshops in dance, drumming and music technology. Contact details.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
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-- American Proverb Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
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-- Benjamin Franklin Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Arts and Entertainment Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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-- Joan Crawford Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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-- Aldous Huxley "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
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-- Robert Browning It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
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-- Walter Prager Arts and Entertainment
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-- Lenny Bruce Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
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-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Arts and Entertainment
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powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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-- Buddy Hackett Arts and Entertainment Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
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-- Booker T. Washington Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
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"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
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