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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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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've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
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Comedy is the toughest. If it goes little bit here and there, and your partner doesn't cover up for you, then everything can go wrong.
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If I worked in a bank as a teller, there wouldn't be girls lined up outside of where I work when I'm done.
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I loved being in my sister's room. I really admired her and wore her clothes to play in, played with her dolls, played with her makeup. She had a mirror with settings to see what you would look like in different lighting. I thought that was amazing.
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
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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.
