John Wilkes Quotes
Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallowsJohn Wilkes . . . That sir depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
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The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
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As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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I'm a plodder, not a planner.
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Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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Later I became very involved in writing. I really enjoyed that moment of writing. People would pass around my sentences. That was a feeling I never had before. It was like a bullet out of the gun.
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My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.
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It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
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Everyone deserves love.
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The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.
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I don't really understand why people are so interested in me, personally. I'm just a curator. I'm just telling people things I think are cool.
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle – mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of c and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
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I still like the physicality of papers.
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Honestly, if you want me to keep it 100, Marilyn Manson has as much style as Kanye West and Pharrell Williams. He has a lot of style. I'm telling you, it's crazy. It might be a little darker, but it's crazy.
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Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallowsJohn Wilkes . . . That sir depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics
