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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.


David Mellor

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MARK LOWENTHAL Such short-sighted actions are ineffective. They aggravate mutual relations, not help improve them.
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JACK KEMP Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.
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DAVID RITTENHOUSE I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd b...
DAVID HEARN Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
DAVID HOCKNEY Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn th...
DAVID ORTIZ 'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, b...
DAVID CHASE I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
DAVID BRAINERD The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T...
DAVID LEVITHAN You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
DAVID QUAMMEN Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a wo...
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street...
LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma.
LARRY DAVID I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these ...
LARRY DAVID My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, ...
LARRY DAVID It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
LARRY DAVID