William Congreve Quotes
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.
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Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
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How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
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The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
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I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
