Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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I don't believe in God.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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In my final year of law school, everything became real. Malaysian TV shows wanted me to perform big concerts. So, after graduating, I decided to go for it. I didn't think I'd be a good lawyer anyway.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
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As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
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Allas! allas! that evere love was synne!
