Edmund Burke Quotes
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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My human rights activism has been widely met with encouragement and support. Ahangarani should earn plaudits, not only for her cinematic achievements, but also for her humanitarian deeds and her commitment to increased rights and freedoms for all.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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'Warm Bodies' - I was contractually obligated to deliver a PG-13 movie. But, like, I wanted it to be PG-13 because it's for younger people, and I don't want them not to be able to see it. I mean, you have to kind of think about the marketplace as well.
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I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.
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I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go back into its first sort of actual war since Vietnam, with the Gulf War. It just seemed unbelievable at the time that this country would do that - which is funny to think about now.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
