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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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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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.
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Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
