Charles Lyell Quotes
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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People trash talk me.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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I consider everything I compose a gift.
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I think by the next generation either we'll have a lot of idiots who are just completely immersed in media and corporatized information, or we'll have people who enjoy media and corporatized information, but are more interconnected with human beings around the world ... And who share common goals and are willing to accept that they are a global citizen. I think the latter is more the direction.
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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.
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Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
