Dudley Moore Quotes
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo’s twang.
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Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.
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I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.
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Even loneliness is not absolute loneliness because the contents of the universe are in him.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
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I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on.
