Edward St Aubyn Quotes
Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
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The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.
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Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.
