Prince Charles Quotes
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One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.
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I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
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Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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I'm from the old school - you go where the power is, and you try to make fun of it. When it becomes off limits to say or do certain things without being brutalized or censored or whatever, it's unfortunate.
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
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If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.
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I told my son, who's 11, "Look, I don't care if you curse - it's other people that care." So we tried that experiment, and he just cursed all the time. And I was like, "All right, now I care that you curse." You try to have this idealized view, and it's like, "I don't care." But it's just going to cause chaos.
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I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
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The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
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In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.
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Michael Carpenter My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.
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I'd rather go by bus.
