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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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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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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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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So if I said I never did drugs, that would mean I lie and get fucked more than the president does!
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.
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I like incremental improvements or at least seeing where you're going to go and really being able to understand what's feasible at the time.
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People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.
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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
