W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
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There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
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You basically only discover a new thing once.
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I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda.
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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
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I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
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There are those who strive to stamp with disrepute The luscious food, because it feeds the brute; In tropes of high-strain'd wit, while gaudy prigs Compare thy nursling man to pamper'd pigs; With sovereign scorn I treat the vulgar jest, Nor fear to share thy bounties with the beast.
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I think the word 'progressive' is a very devious term. It was created as a substitute for 'communist.' What they propose is the reverse of progress.
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Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.
