Ambrose Philips Quotes
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.
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I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
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Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.
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It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.
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My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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I think if you left grownups to do what they really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone.
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Too much rest is rust.
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The captain called me to his bed and fumbled for my hand 'Take these silver bars,' he said, 'I'm giving you command.' Command of what? There's no on here. There's only you and me. The rest are dead or in retreat or with the enemy. 'Complain, complain, that's all you've done ever since we lost, If it's not the crucifixion then it's the holocaust.'
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Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
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I could have beat Obama.
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I think that if you use long lines, they become – what could they be? The only thing they could be is either highways or architecture or bridges.
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The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get.
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
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Wearied then and glad of rest, Like the linnet in the nest.
