Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Quotes

Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.

Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

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• I'm obsessed with socks. I even wear them to bed!

  

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• I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

  

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• I find both yoga and pilates awesome at calming my mind and strengthening my body.

  

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• Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

  

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• High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

  

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• Having great friends in New York is like having great friends on an expedition into Darkest Africa in the early 19th century. You need them. And you need sponsorship on a daily basis. I have a painter friend here who says, 'I need two compliments a day just to break even.' And we gave them to each other, and we got them - and honestly got them.

  

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• Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.

  

  Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax