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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Francois Rabelais

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• I've got nothing very original to say myself.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Myself
  • Nothing
  • Say

• I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Films
  • Cry
  • Even

• Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Now
  • Listen
  • Kick

• I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • President
  • Will
  • Accept

• I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Acting
  • Times
  • Seriously

• I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Quit
  • Everest
  • Mount Everest

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• I would read all day if I could.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Day
  • Read
  • If I Could

• I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Myself

• Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Voice

• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Together
  • Wisdom

• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Writing
  • Identity
  • Communication

• People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Religious
  • Dying

• I always want to improve.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Always
  • Improve

• I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Book
  • Audience
  • Pure

• Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Light

• I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

  

  K. Flay
  • Community
  • Learning
  • Like

• Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Reality
  • Free

• I think I've been skeptical of violent passion for a long time. I think 'Pinkerton' is about that a lot - seeing how, every time I've felt really passionate for someone, as soon as I 'acquire' them or feel like I've acquired them, the passion goes away.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Passion

• I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

  

  Brittany Murphy

• When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

  

  Buddha
  • Good
  • Free
  • Feeling

• I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Mother
  • House
  • Wife

• We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives.

  

  Lucy Powell
  • People
  • Party

• There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

  

  Francois Rabelais