David Hume Quotes
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.
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I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.
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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
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An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes, doing what he wants, working with people that he likes, and enjoying himself to his very old age.
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It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
