Max Beerbohm Quotes
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Max Beerbohm
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
Jackie DeShannon
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
Fan Bingbing
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
Teddy Sears
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
Adam Cohen
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. Lewis
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
Magdi Yacoub
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
Dan Kaminsky
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
T. J. Miller
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
Carl Hiaasen
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When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.
Muhammad Ali
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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
William Gibson
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
A. E. Housman
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
Barton Gellman
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Max Beerbohm
