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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Ever had a woman say no to you, Dmitri?” “Once.” He turned the corner with a smile that made her want to cup his face, trace those beautiful lips with her own. “I married her.
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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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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers.
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We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.
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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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He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.
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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.
