William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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I'm a huge Sia fan. I love Sia, I have just about all of her stuff.
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There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, ... And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.
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We are one another's strength.
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'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'
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'The democratization of luxury means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.
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Ninety percent of my mentors have been male, most of them with very little in common with me on a personal level - from life experience, work experience, backgrounds, etc.
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Yes, we didn't do this -- we didn't produce these videotapes on time. My letter to Sen. Thompson made clear we should have found them. But the one thing that is absolutely clear is that the only pattern here is not one of incompetence -- and we don't make an incompetence defense -- the pattern here is one of an ongoing intensive day-to-day effort to try to meet the committee's needs and that is the only pattern a fair reader can see.
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No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.
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The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
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All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.
