John Vanbrugh Quotes
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I received free health care.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.
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My mother is a retired music teacher. She taught me in high school, and she would take us and put us in these madrigal groups. We would go to a museum or whatever and just perform.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
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As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
