Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes
The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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I think a superhero would be awesome to play.
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I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.
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Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.
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What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.
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'What’s Hell?' inquired Wild-Eye. 'You should visit before you pass judgement on a place. And have you never heard it said, the Dark One is a gentleman?'
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Peoples of European descent are not only in a relative but a real decline. They are aging, dying, disappearing. This is the existential crisis of the West.
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Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.
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Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.
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Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.
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One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
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I have some very dear friends I stalk consistently when I come home.
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The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
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If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.
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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
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The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
