Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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I myself am a former commando fighter.
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Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.
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At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.
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People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.
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A crown and justice? Night and day Shall first be yoked together.
