John Gay Quotes
Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
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I've never been a partier.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
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I've always been fairly confident in my acting.
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I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.
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Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
