Philip Massinger Quotes
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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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After the 2013 World Championships, I had three goals for the Olympics: to swim 3:56 or better in the 400-meter freestyle, break 8:05 in the 800, and win gold in the 200. I achieved all of those, and soon, it will be time to set some new goals.
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My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.
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You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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My music is - there's no litmus test, there's no political litmus test for listening to it - but I am never going to compromise one iota to satisfy with someone who's uncomfortable with the ideas I feel in my heart.
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What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!
