Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury Quotes
Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.
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We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called 'It', and cats – as well as women – always knew when he came into the room.
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I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.
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You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
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Asking myself, 'Is this any good?' is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can't tell anyway. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
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'Obamacare,' as it's been called, is far too reaching. It's overreaching. It needs to have a lot of it repealed.
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In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
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Right now I'd say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen.
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Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.
