John Mortimer Quotes
Our system, which we call democracy, at least leaves us the right from time to time to get rid of those who wish to govern us. And, if it's nowhere near Utopia, it is probably the best of all imperfect systems. All I can do is to advise you to be very cautious of those who claim to represent you and order you about for your own good.
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Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is.
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Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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I'm really passionate about music. I do love acting, but music is the end goal for me.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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Our system, which we call democracy, at least leaves us the right from time to time to get rid of those who wish to govern us. And, if it's nowhere near Utopia, it is probably the best of all imperfect systems. All I can do is to advise you to be very cautious of those who claim to represent you and order you about for your own good.
