Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes
A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
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I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
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Animals tell us something. If the animals have suffered this way from GMOs, potentially for us, let’s listen to what they’re telling us. Let’s take heed.
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True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.
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It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
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Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!
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I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'
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I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
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I've always known I was good, but if other people dont think so, it can hurt your confidence.
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There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.
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People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?
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Money money money money money money money money money. Let no one say it has no place in a love story. It has a particular place. It is something on the right shelf.
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The more experienced you are, the better off you are.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
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A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
