Beverley Nichols Quotes
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I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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Spirituality is a growth industry. And nothing illustrates that better than the burgeoning crop of colossal sanctuaries sprouting up in suburbs across the land.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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If I'm playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
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Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty.
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I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.
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I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
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Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
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A lot of my stories end with 'And when I regained consciousness, there was a crowd standing around looking at me.'
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If she kept him next to her she was afraid of breaking him, if she pushed him too far away she was afraid of losing him.
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My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.
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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
