Kin Hubbard Quotes
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I'm very independent.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.
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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.
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But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.
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Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.
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Live so as to have a quiet conscience.
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Now an' then an innocent man is sent t' th' legislature.
