Edward Coke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
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I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.
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You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
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My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember any of it. People would ask me what good books I'd read recently, or what I thought of a particular book, and my mind would go blank. At the same time, I'd just heard of blogging and found the idea interesting and thought I'd give it a try.
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I love rethinking and reimagining songs.
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Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.
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An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
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Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.
