George Herbert Quotes
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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I think it's important that we go through everything together as a team.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
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Terrorists who try to sow chaos, they must be met with force and they must also be met, though, with a forceful commitment to uphold the rule of law, and respect for human rights, and to treat everybody who’s peaceful and law-abiding fairly and equally.
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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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Iría al paraíso, pero con mi infierno; solo, no.
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We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.
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One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.
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I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.
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You won't catch me giving clear lectures.
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Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
