George Chapman Quotes
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
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Life's too short to just breeze on by.
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The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
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I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.
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In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.
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Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
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I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
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I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.
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I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.
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You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
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Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the cumulative impact from the destruction of vital services like water and electricity.
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Minus Point:
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People who invented the word charity, and used it in a good sense, inculcated more clearly, and much more efficaciously, the precept, Be charitable, than any pretended legislator or prophet, who should insert such a maxim in his writings.
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From the dawn of the day to the dusk he toiled, Shaping fanciful playthings, with tireless hands, - Useless trumpery toys; and, with vaulting heart, Gave them unto all peoples, who mocked at him, Trampled on them, and soiled them, and went their way.
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Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.
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Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people and drink. Jump behind the wheel like it was still legal!
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It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
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Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.
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An ill weed grows apace.
