George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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This is a free country, and to each their own.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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I wanted to update the American people on what we know about the situation in Japan, what we’re doing to support American citizens and the safety of our own nuclear energy, and how we are helping the Japanese people contain the damage, recover and rebuild.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
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The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.
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Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.
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I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.
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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
