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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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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England was merry England, whenOld Christmas brought his sports again.‘Twas Christmas broach’d the mightiest ale;‘Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man’s heart through half the year.
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With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.
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I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
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Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.
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The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?
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He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
