"Having a vote once every four years is……" — Hugh Laurie
"Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy."
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94 Quotes by Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie has 94 quotes on this site.
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I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife.…
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Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my…
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I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some…
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Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting…
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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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Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.
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I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.
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I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as…
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It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.
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We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome…
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Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week…
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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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More Democracy Quotes
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the…
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
— Aristotle
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
— Aristotle
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Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
— Giorgio Armani
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I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings…
— Richard Armitage
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
— Karen Armstrong
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
— Chinua Achebe
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
— Chinua Achebe
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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