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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Without question, I'm not a fan of the EPA. The EPA has overstepped their boundaries each and every day. They get into areas they shouldn't be involved in... the states have the right to regulate themselves if they have the ability to do so - and we do because we have the Department of Environmental Quality.
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I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.
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The invisible hand is not perfect. Indeed, the invisible hand is a little bit arthritic ... I'm a believer in free markets, but I think we need to be less naïve. We need to accept that markets give us pretty good solutions, but occasionally they will lock in something inferior.
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As though a tongueless nightingale should swellHer throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
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The biggest reward from that record was the enthusiasm everyone had to sing on it. The Grammy nominations and the chart positions are great, but ultimately the way you interact with other musicians is the most important thing to me.
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
