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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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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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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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
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Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,An old man in a draughty houseUnder a windy knob.
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Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.’
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Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.
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I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?
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I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.
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High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"
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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
