Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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I don't put myself under pressure.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
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France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
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Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
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As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
