Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
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You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
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It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
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O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
