Caryll Houselander Quotes
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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So if I said I never did drugs, that would mean I lie and get fucked more than the president does!
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By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
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Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
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I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.
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The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
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I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.
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What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.
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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
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Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
