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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis

Good, Two, Cricket

It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
LaToya Jackson

Love, Find, Difficult

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Irving Babbitt

Sympathy, Between, Balance

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.
Ani DiFranco

Beautiful, Down, Guitar

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
Ani DiFranco

Life, Music, Anger

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Jeanne Moreau

Talent, Fiction, Author

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
Mia Hamm

Winner, Challenges, Embrace

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Art, Minds, Mirror

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
Charles de Gaulle

Willing, Risks, Statesman

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Walter Lippmann

Best, Government, Equally

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.
Christopher Guest

Become, Sense, Lose

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.
John Malkovich

Great, Truth, Everyone

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.
Tony Campolo

Leadership, Woman, Real

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.
Tony Campolo

Politics, Through, Religious

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.
William J. Clinton

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
Harold Warner

Character, Heart, Ministry

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
Rod Stewart

Love, Fool, Heart

You know, it's just my dream came true.
Rod Stewart

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon

General, Laws, Particular

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon

Useful, False, Worship

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe

Life, Romantic, Feeling

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
Emma Goldman

Cannot, Social, Dealing

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.
Joe Biden

Angry, Around, Gone

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
Chris Martin

Work, Time, Said

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
Abu Bakr

Believer, Affliction, Rewarded

If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.
Peyton Manning

Life, Nothing, Two

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
David Ogden Stiers

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Dave Chappelle

Yourself, Everybody, Watching

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.
Thomas Frank

Business, Done, America

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.
Thomas Frank

Business, Another, Nation

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