Edward Carpenter Quotes
The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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Everything I say is true.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired,'
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If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.
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But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my
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The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.
