Walter Bagehot Quotes
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
