David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir Quotes
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I want to be a major force.
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I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.
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I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
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Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.
