W. S. Gilbert Quotes
I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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My experience of children on a film set, especially on a big film set like the 'Potter' one, is not wholly positive.
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At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
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We all want to believe in the magic of someone knowing what we're thinking.
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Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
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I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
