Lady Randolph Churchill Quotes
Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.
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No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
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A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
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Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!
