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'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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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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I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.
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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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Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.
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Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
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Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.
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What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
