John Gay Quotes
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
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If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.
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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
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The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.
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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
