Nancy Mitford Quotes
The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.
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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
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I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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One thing I ask you to do, you people who have the pen in your hand, allow God to use you so that you never write anything that will destroy, that will hurt, but always take the trouble to write something beautiful, to help the people to see better, to love better, to come closer... to each other.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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The total number of minds in the universe is one.
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In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.
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Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.
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The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.
