William Congreve Quotes
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
Quotes to Explore
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
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I tend to shoot really quick so you don't get the problems you might get on a traditional film where you shoot one way, then another, and it's pissing down with rain and they won't cut together. We shoot so fast we can incorporate the weather into it. The worst weather we had was when they were in the caravan up the mountain and there was no cover. One man's weather is another man's production value. To create the sleet would cost a fortune but we got it for free so we'll just have to go with it.
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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
