A. P. Herbert Quotes
It cannot be too clearly understood that this is not a free country, and it will be an evil day for the legal profession when it is.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.
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How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?
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I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.
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The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.
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It cannot be too clearly understood that this is not a free country, and it will be an evil day for the legal profession when it is.
