Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
Irwin Shaw
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
Danica McKellar
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
Aasif Mandvi
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
Karl Pilkington
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
Teddy Sears
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
Tanya Tucker
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
Adam Cohen
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Try not to eat after 7 P.M. Try to stay away from heavy food in the night, like hamburgers and chicken nuggets. Eat that stuff in the morning or early afternoon.
Irina Shayk
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
G. Willow Wilson
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Whether you like me, or hate me, this is me.
Christina Aguilera
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You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.
Neal H. Moritz
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Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
Lionel Hampton
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So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Palaeolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.
E. J. W. Barber
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People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.
Rachel Corrie
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
