Charles Lamb Quotes
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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I just want to do my job.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.
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Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
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It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.
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There was a break in the proceedings when Peter Greste was deported, and that was considered sufficient then to allow the executive to intervene.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
