John Gay Quotes
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
