Lord Hailsham Quotes
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
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All mankind love a lover.
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Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.
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To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.
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We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.
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Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
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We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.
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Anchormen shouldn't cry.
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I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
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People judged my work without to have listened to it.
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I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good actor. What's his name again?' I liked being at that place.
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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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We do not need an Osami <sic> bin Laden leading us.
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A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.
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It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.
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I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
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I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.
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Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.
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The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
