William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Quotes
Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
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John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.
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When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.
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It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
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Melania rarely wears American labels, with the exception of Ralph Lauren, who created a duplication of a Jackie Kennedy look, which was basically a costume anyway.
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I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
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I wouldn't want to be a mother that put blinders on and didn't see what was going on with my child. There can be huge consequences to such a thing.
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A lot of the images in my work are a kind of visual diary of places I've been, what I've seen, heard, smelt.
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I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
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I can be serious for an hour; then I have to go lie down.
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Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
