W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
Adam Derek Scott
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
Carl Barks
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.
Anacharsis
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Goya, MirĂ³, Matisse, Bosch and Klee.
Alexander Calder
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If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you want Congress regulating the money supply? We'd have drowned in inflation, or gone bankrupt, decades ago.
Jim Cooper
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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
Victor Hugo
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That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put so much pressure on every single.
Freya Ridings
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I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.
Dudley Moore
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Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
John Ruskin
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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
Claire McCaskill
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
W. S. Gilbert