Augustus Hare Quotes
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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War makes rattling good history.
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A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
