Edmund Burke Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.
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Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
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I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies - I was Armed with Insight.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
