Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Quotes
He John Hampden knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
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I hate small talk! I can't do it.
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I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
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I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.
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I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.
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The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
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In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.
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I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.
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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
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I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
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Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
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The law, that is what makes men stay honest.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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He John Hampden knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
