"Humility was considered a great virtue in my……" — Hugh Laurie
"Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death."
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94 Quotes by Hugh Laurie
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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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Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.
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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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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 Complacency Quotes
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have…
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -…
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not…
— Michael Chertoff
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Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the…
— Edward de Bono
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo…
— Wallace Stevens
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Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His…
— Francis of Assisi
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Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
— Don Meyer
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
— Charles Lamb
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From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face…
— Mark Helprin
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