Lord Byron Quotes
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
Quotes to Explore
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
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I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
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Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.
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I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.
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Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
