W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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I'm very excited to have a girl.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
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How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.
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I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
