W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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Bullying is a national epidemic.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
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You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
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I've always loved improv. It's my thing.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
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Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.
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Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
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Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?
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The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season.
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I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .
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Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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You don't make money when you buy stocks. And you don't make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.
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He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
