John Osborne Quotes
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.
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I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
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Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
