Philip Massinger Quotes
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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My fans are going to support me through thick and thin; 100 per cent, they'll always support me.
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I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.
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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.
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Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
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I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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Cuando lo superficial me cansa, me cansa tanto, que para descansar necesito un abismo.
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All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
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When I have dinner, I get off my phone, smell my food, and chew it well.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.
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I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.
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For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles.
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Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into.
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What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!
