Lady Randolph Churchill Quotes
Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!
Quotes to Explore
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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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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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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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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I am good, but not an angel.
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I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
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We will not go out there and make negative music for selfish gain.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!
