William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Quotes
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.
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As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.
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Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
