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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'I've lost a day!'-the prince who nobly cried,Had been an emperor without his crown.
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Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.
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I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.
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You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'
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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.
