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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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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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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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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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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I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
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That's painful always to lose.
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I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
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There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
