John Betjeman Quotes
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.
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I want to do just like my sister, if not even better.
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I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
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One mark of good verse is surprise.
