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 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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A movie like 'The Apartment' is beautifully directed, but you can't put your finger on why it's such a good movie. It just is, because of all these things that Billy Wilder is subtly doing. That level of filmmaking is something I aspire to.
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It's weird, because everywhere I go, people yell, 'Grasshopper!' or 'Bill!' but down there in Mexico or Colombia or anywhere in South America or most of Europe, people will yell, 'Serpent's Egg!' And I'll go, 'Wow, man, these people are really hip.'
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I usually like to keep my hair and makeup routines pretty simple after I work out but always need a little bit of mascara to finish off the look. I just swipe some on and then am good to go for the rest of the day.
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I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
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He hath no leisure who useth it not.
