Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
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When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.
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Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
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The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.
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I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.
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And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell.
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If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be.
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I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.
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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
