Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
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I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
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No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
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Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
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World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
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He looked at the machine, its cabinets all standing open; it should be destroyed, he thought. But he had no idea how to do it, nor any will to try. Destruction was not his line; and a machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
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It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.
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People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
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We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.
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What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .
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It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
