W. S. Gilbert Quotes
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
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Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
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Karl Marx and Adam Smith both subscribed to this view. They both saw successful growth as dependent on the development of efficient property rights. Their followers appear in the main to have forgotten this.
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I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
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I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.
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I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
