David Garrick Quotes
Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,Who wrote like an angel, and talk’d like poor Poll.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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The opponent never matters to me. That's something I've always said.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Oh tell me where the answer lies,Is it in the notebook behind your eyes?
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True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
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Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,Who wrote like an angel, and talk’d like poor Poll.
