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 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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I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
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Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen.
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I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.
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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.
