George Herbert Quotes
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
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When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
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Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
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I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
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I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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The supporting powers of time air and of the wind depend on the shape of the surfaces used, and the best forms can only be evolved by free flight through the air.
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Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. The End.
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We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late... The science is clear. The global warming debate is over.
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I think to look in the future, to plan another one, it's not realistic right now. But I don't close any doors. I'm very open for what comes up. At the moment, we are so happy with this one. I really hope people will like it as much as we do.
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Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'
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My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.
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Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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And I love writing. I've always loved writing.
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Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.
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If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.
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When I was in London I found house music and techno, and I love that s - t. It's my go-to music. It's the closest for me to the old funk of James Brown and the repetitive dance music that I like from the soul music. I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don't know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients.
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He hath no leisure who useth it not.
