Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.
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There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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When I'm on the pitch, I enjoy myself, and I try to give my all.
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London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
