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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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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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.
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If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.
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I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
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What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
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My parents weren't involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. Little film festivals of Westerns and stuff like that when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to be those guys in those movies before I knew what being an actor was.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
