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Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.
Hugh Laurie
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Hugh Laurie
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 11
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James Hugh Calum Laurie
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Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot.
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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.
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Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.
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I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding.
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It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.
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I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.
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People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever and I've only done one Shakespeare play at university. If people want to believe that, I'm happy to go along with it.
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They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
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Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.
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There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.
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LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weatherwise, socially and professionally.
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Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.
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I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.
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Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless
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Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.
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To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
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I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.
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I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.
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Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
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Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.
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