Edmund Burke Quotes
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.
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I am extremely grateful for two big gifts from my father. First, my sense of humor - the ability to see the humor in something while it is happening. That has cushioned my life. I am also grateful for the work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It has enriched my life and made me a very different person.
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I remember so well the day that you came into my life. You asked for my name, you had the most beautiful smile.
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There's so many things that we could do.
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Once established, reputations do not easily change.
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
