Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Mark in the meadows the ruin of Time; Take the hint, and let life be improv'd in its prime.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
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If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the U.K., plus three years of drama school, you could say that I've been pretty much surrounded by the business of acting and performing my entire life.
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I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
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Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
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Mark in the meadows the ruin of Time; Take the hint, and let life be improv'd in its prime.
