Francis Beaumont Quotes
As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
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I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility are things we can learn from.
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'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.
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Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
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Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.
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What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
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We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.
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The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.
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Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!
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As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
