W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant.
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The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.
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For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.
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Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you're not getting enough oxygen.
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Life's a pudding full of plums.
