Walter Bagehot Quotes
But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.
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When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.
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I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.
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I was not a Democrat; I was an independent. Here's the thing: You can't win that way. But I didn't know that.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
