Kenneth Clarke Quotes
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought about as a kid but then remembered as a parent.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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Love finds us young and keeps us so: immortal himself, he permits not age to enter the hearts where he reigns.
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I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.
