Francis Maude Quotes
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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I enjoy money.
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When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.
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For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.
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Our love for our Father in Heaven and the Lord Jesus Christ needs to be reflected in our daily choices and actions. They have promised peace, joy, and happiness to those who keep Their commandments.
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
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There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
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It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
