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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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over.
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One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.
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I love my country, but maybe that's because I'm white and rich. I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit, that I refuse to share with others.
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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.
