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He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.


Hugh Howey

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HUGH LAURIE I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better lookin...
HUGH LEONARD I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turk...
HUGH GRANT One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can k...
HUGH JACKMAN Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
HUGH HEFNER It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise s...
HUGH BLAIR A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign th...
HUGH SIDEY We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another...
HUGH LAURIE The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it....
HUGH LAURIE Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now b...
HUGH HEFNER I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antib...
HUGH LAURIE When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have poster...
HUGH JACKMAN The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's am...
HUGH HEFNER The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
HUGH LAURIE I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost conc...
HUGH LAURIE What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty hav...
HUGH HEFNER I do like to do TV work when it's firing on all cylinders.
HUGH DILLON