William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Quotes
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
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I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.
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'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'
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My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
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Apparently it's acceptable for members of Congress to own stock in companies we regulate in Congress, but somehow, our plumbing company crosses some line.
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I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.
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The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.
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I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.
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Hélas! les vices de l’homme, si pleins d’horreur qu’on les suppose, contiennent la preuve (quand ce ne serait que leur infinie expansion!) de son goût de l’infini.
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Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
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Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
