Herbert Spencer Quotes
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
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If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.
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I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in 'The Fighter.' That is what is so impressive about really good actors, that they can be character actors and leading men at the same time.
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I never set out to work on the concept of androgyny. For me, it was more about trying to find a wardrobe that would fundamentally appeal to both men and women: Trying to find the right shirt, the right jeans, the right trouser - but on different landscapes.
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
