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Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

Henry James Sumner Maine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: english
Birth: August 15, 1822 - February 3, 1888

Topics

Law Order Custody Remarkable Epoch

Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.

Time You Career Hollywood Breathe

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.

Forward You Look Nice Open Tidy

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

Thinking You Too Much Go Improvise

Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.

Christopher Buckley

Love Good Gift Enough Satire Here

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

Reality Television Reality Television

I like to wear girlie things, but only if I can rock them up with biker boots or a jacket.

Boots I Can Rock Jacket Up Wear

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

Love Confidence Me Makeup I Love

I'm ridiculously lucky.

Lucky Ridiculously

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

Result Source Seldom Worries

I usually get up around 6 A.M. It takes me a while to get going. In our household, I am the first one up. I usually make coffee for myself, draw a bath and have a big soak. I read in the bath.

Myself Coffee I Am Me Bath First

You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It's hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football. You can't keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren't always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.

Time Football Together College Team

I wasn't born thin. I train. But I would never starve myself. I mean, what is happening with women these days? I just couldn't see myself looking that thin. I like a bit of waist and leg.

Nicole Appleton

Women Myself Looking Train Born See

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