John Gay Quotes
Remote from cities liv'd a swain,Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;His head was silver'd o'er with age,And long experience made him sage.John Gay
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
Barry Ritholtz -
I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
Rachel Nichols -
I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
Sadaharu Oh -
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
Banks -
Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
Adam Lamberg -
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
Natasha Trethewey
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
Malcolm Gladwell -
It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
Caitriona Balfe -
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
Lane Evans -
Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
Isaac D'Israeli -
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
Patricia Velasquez -
Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
Sabrina Carpenter
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
Caleb Cushing -
Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
Rachel Bloom -
My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
Manny Montana -
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
Omari Hardwick -
It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
Fedor Emelianenko -
The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
Taufik Hidayat
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Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.
Max Heindel -
If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.
John Curtin -
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
William James -
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
David Broder -
Remote from cities liv'd a swain,Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;His head was silver'd o'er with age,And long experience made him sage.
John Gay