William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Quotes
Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
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I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.
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All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
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... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
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I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album.
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Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.
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We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.
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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
