A. P. Herbert Quotes
The laws were very comical; to bet was voted lax,But your betting was the only thing that nobody could tax.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
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It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.
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There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
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Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.
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It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
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None but blockheads copy each other.
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Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
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I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
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I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.
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The laws were very comical; to bet was voted lax,But your betting was the only thing that nobody could tax.
