Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes
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His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
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The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.
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Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.
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The key is to test the areas that you are most worried about going wrong. That way you get the most benefit for your testing effort. It is better to write and run incomplete tests than not to run complete tests
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I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.
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Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.
