W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
Tara Strong -
I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
Larry Hagman -
Bullying is a national epidemic.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza -
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.
Frances McDormand -
The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
Usher
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
Cameron Russell -
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.
Barack Obama -
There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
C. Everett Koop -
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.
Victoria Pendleton -
I've always loved improv. It's my thing.
Oscar Nunez -
I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
Kaley Cuoco
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
Kate Braverman -
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.
Parker Palmer -
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.
Samantha Harvey -
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
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?
Orson Scott Card -
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.
Walter Scott
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'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.
Jenna Wortham -
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.
Albert Murray -
In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption.
Jerry Costello -
I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
Joseph Barbera -
No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.
Daisaku Ikeda -
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
W. S. Gilbert