Charles II Quotes
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.
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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing which shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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If you're going to write a story, avoid contemporary references. They date a story and they have no staying power.
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Thus he had a double thought: the one by which he acted as king, the other by which he recognized his true state, and that it was accident alone that had placed him in his present condition.
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We have a saying: 'A single straw of a broom can be broken easily, but the straws together are not easily broken.' So here are three things African women can do to support their sisters and daughters:
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I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.
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You can't have everything you want in one woman.
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People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.
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I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.
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The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.
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Never in the way, and never out of the way.
