W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.
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I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.
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I often think it's comical