Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Forbede us thing, and that desiren we; Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we flee. With daunger oute we al oure chaffare: Greet prees at market maketh dere ware, And too greet chepe is holden at litel pris.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.
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I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?
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Potato overboard!
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I LOVED her! ay, I would have givenA death-bed certainty of heavenIf I had thought it could conferThe least of happiness on her!
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God don't make no junk.
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Well, when it comes to inspiration, I come from San Diego originally - it's an un-media-hyped, sleepy sort of town, big on beach culture you know?
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
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I was so honored to be on 'Entourage' for eight years but I want to show people that I can do other things.
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Forbede us thing, and that desiren we; Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we flee. With daunger oute we al oure chaffare: Greet prees at market maketh dere ware, And too greet chepe is holden at litel pris.
