George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Quotes
The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
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Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.
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It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.
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When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
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No man fails who does his best.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.
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The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.
