George Farquhar Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.
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I like the feeling of being dominated. It actually makes me feel safe as opposed to challenged.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
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Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each other and who have decided to commit to each other for the exact same reasons any other couple would get married.
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Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.
