Cleveland Amory Quotes
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
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Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.
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When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'
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A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
