William Congreve Quotes
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
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I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.
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I'm really into gardening.
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When I first went to work... I had over me an impetuous, hustling man. It was necessary for me to be up to the top notch to give satisfaction. I worked faster than I otherwise would have done, and to him I attribute the impetus that I acquired.
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I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.
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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
