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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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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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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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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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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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.
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Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
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I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
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Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
