Anthony Trollope Quotes
In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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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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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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I think that 'Room 104' offered us an organic opportunity to tell all kinds of stories with all kinds of protagonists.
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The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
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I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.
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People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
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In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.
