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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We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.
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As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.
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We all understand loss. It's about what you do with that.
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I don't think my body's gonna go to hell if I train for performance. It might change a little and adapt, but I like being strong.
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
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The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.
