E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Quotes

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

  

  Warwick Davis
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• If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• Wisdom is a sacred communion.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

  

  Daniel Burnham
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• I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

  

  P. N. Elrod
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• More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Music
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• When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• I don't see myself in the political realm.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• I love pain. Love pain.

  

  Cam Gigandet
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• I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Criticism
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  • Own

• 'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987

  

  Octavio Paz

• And I have no desire to get ugly,But I cannot help mentioning that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit - the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• Anya: How 'bout you, ever play Shiver Me Timbers?Tara: I'm not really much for the timber.

  

  Amber Benson

• Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.

  

  David Icke
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• Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

  

  Terry Brooks
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• We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • World
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• It's funny - almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two friends Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer. And my two friends that are doing the best in comedy, the most successful friends I have, are Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer.

  

  Eric Andre
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• For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

  

  Chaz Bono
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• The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax