Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; 'they will both fall into the ditch.'
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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There's a lot of traps you can fall into when you are playing someone who existed. If it comes out just as impersonation, that's bad; it has to be an embodiment. You have to live it, not just sound and look like it.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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'Pain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.'
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The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; 'they will both fall into the ditch.'
