W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting to try.
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Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
