Oliver Reed Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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People never remember but the computer never forgets. (p. 69)
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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.
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You don't get any second chances.
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In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
