Charles Lamb Quotes
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Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
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It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
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I've done a lot of other shows in the U.S. that have been great, but I knew that 'Roadies' was something special. I feel very, very fortunate.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.
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In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.
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I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
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The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.
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It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.
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Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
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I've never been able to lift my own weight, and the day when you have that capacity, it's pretty empowering!
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I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
