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 think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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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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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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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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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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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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Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
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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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I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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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.
