Charles I of England Quotes
"If I would have given way to an arbitrary way, for to have all laws changed according to the power of the sword, I needed not to have come here; and therefore I tell you (and I pray God it be not laid to your charge) that I am the martyr of the people."[
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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You're always being cast for what you've been in last.
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But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
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Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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"If I would have given way to an arbitrary way, for to have all laws changed according to the power of the sword, I needed not to have come here; and therefore I tell you (and I pray God it be not laid to your charge) that I am the martyr of the people."[
