Charles I of England Quotes
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
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I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.
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Lenscrafters is upset with Tea Partier Michele Bachmann because she called Planned Parenthood 'the Lenscrafters of abortion.' Lenscrafters released a statement today calling her 'the Costco of crazy.'
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The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
