Alastair Humphreys Quotes
Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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The show has become my therapy.
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The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.
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I want to be open about my condition to show others that they are not alone in dealing with this form of chronic hives. My advice for people with CIU is to talk to their doctor about their condition.
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There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
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It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
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Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.
