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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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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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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The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique...
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I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?
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Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.