Augustus Hare Quotes
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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First appearance deceives many.
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A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.
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Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
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You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
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It is not a little Surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists of softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer Feelings, should encourage a Practice so totally repugnant to the first Impression of Right and Wrong. What adds to the wonder is that this Abominable Practice has been introduced in the most enlightened Ages.
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The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.
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My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
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The key is to test the areas that you are most worried about going wrong. That way you get the most benefit for your testing effort. It is better to write and run incomplete tests than not to run complete tests
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I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.
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As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.