Edmund Burke Quotes
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
Quotes to Explore
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Venus favors the bold.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.
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There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.
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To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
