Herbert Spencer Quotes
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
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When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
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An hour to one person might be way more than like a week to somebody else.
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Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.
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But achieving a sense of inner peace is real. It's out there. You just have to be willing to walk past the darkness, and even past the light, to find it.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
