George Farquhar Quotes
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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America’s commitment to Israel’s security is unshakeable. Our friendship with Israel is deep and enduring. And so we believe that any lasting peace must acknowledge the very real security concerns that Israel faces every single day.
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That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.
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Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.
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All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
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I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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There is a latent talent in everyone. I am nothing extraordinary just because I happen to be an actor. Everybody is extraordinary in his own way. One must identify one's own talent early on - one is not great merely when he gets recognized by others - and one doesn't become a nobody just because his talent is not widely known.
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I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
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Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.
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Those who know the least, obey the best.
