William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Quotes
What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.
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The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.
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I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.
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What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
