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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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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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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But I had forgotten about the seven bowls of God's wrath stored in the minds of some of the unhappier prophets on the reactionary right,...
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I've got that European swagger.
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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
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All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.
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People in the performing arts have a lot of other skills they don't realize they can utilize, and part of what the Actors Fund program is there to do is wake their head up to realize there are other things they can do.
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If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
