Gavin Friday Quotes
I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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They sailed away for a year and a dayTo the land where the bong-tree grows.
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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists...
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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
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I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.
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Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.
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I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills.
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I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man.
