Chauncey Depew Quotes
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
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My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.
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Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
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The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
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Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.
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What I'm absolutely certain of is, every day we delay in accessing that Asia-Pacific region, the more we lose economically.
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Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation.
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I really started to enjoy Instagram more recently because it's something that shows people what I'm doing and what I'm going through, but it's so simple. I don't have to come up with something witty; it's just a funny photo, and you can be as artistic or as plain Jane as you want.
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I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.
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Really, when you look at it, you're not battling the chemo, you're battling yourself the whole time. It was me versus me. There were many times where I didn't know if I would wake up tomorrow. I would just be up, scared to go to sleep.
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Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
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I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.
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We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
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If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
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If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
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A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.
