W. S. Gilbert Quotes
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'
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Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit,-Life!
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I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
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Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
