A. P. Herbert Quotes
The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.
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When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.
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The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.
