Hugh Laurie Quotes

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

Hugh Laurie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 11, 1959

Topics

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America faces a mounting transportation crisis, and the primary culprit is road congestion. Traffic makes us unhealthy, wastes enormous amounts of time, and cripples national productivity. America needs expanded roads and transportation infrastructure, but traditional gas tax funding is no longer available.

Joe Lonsdale

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I love 'Starship Troopers.' I've seen it ten times.

Joel Kinnaman

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When you cook, you take a life. When you eat fish, or meat, you take a life. And you must be very respectful of the ingredients and that is very important.

Joel Robuchon

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I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

Jennifer Coolidge

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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

Simon Baker

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Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Rose Byrne

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Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

Roy Horn

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They say fame is important and that maintaining your fame is even more important. But to me, the most important thing is to deserve the respect of your fans.

Juan Gabriel

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My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.

Jasper Fforde

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There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

Peter Diamandis

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