Howard Carter Quotes
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
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I genuinely do think that skin does have a lot to do with genetics. I was blessed. You should see my mom and grandma - it's unfair!
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
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I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minutes to an hour of most small businesses in this country. That's really powerful. I call it our bone structure.
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The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
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Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
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The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
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I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.
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It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
