Edwin Lutyens Quotes
If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say, 'What wonderful monkeys - they must be shot in case they do it again.'
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
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Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.
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I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.
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My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others the way I live so that hopefully they follow. I can also tell about my experiences as a Christian so that I may help bring others to Christ.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(
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We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
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Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.
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Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.
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The great success of this system is that it makes the general public afraid of taking responsibility, afraid of taking a position or giving a definite answer, or even of making mistakes.
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I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me.
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Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.
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Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.
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It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.
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How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.
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Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
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If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say, 'What wonderful monkeys - they must be shot in case they do it again.'
