John Gay Quotes
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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I have a secret love of jazz.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
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As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.
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We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.
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The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.
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I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.
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Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.
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'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
