Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury Quotes
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
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That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.
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I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.
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Not only do people go into Chinese restaurants, but people are more likely to work with other Chinese-Americans, more likely to marry them.
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There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.
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The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
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Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.
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Individuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love for ourselves or others, is going to have to go now. Or, literally, there will be hell to pay.
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One could push a pack of truths together to make one despicable falsehood.
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The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
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Life is not to live merely, but to live well.
