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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To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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Give, expecting nothing there of.
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I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.
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There were so many things that were wrong (against West Virginia). We just have to re-define our roles a little, do what we have to do and how we can do it.
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Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
