W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
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The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
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Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.
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In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.
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There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
