William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one drug I'd like to try one day is Ayahuasca, which should be mandatory for everybody. It’s apparently this crazy tea that gives you these intense hallucinations. Everyone who takes it sees a wise old black man who takes you on a wild journey. I’m not going to name names, but everyone who takes it sees the same black guy. I'm not kidding you. Everyone!
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Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.
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I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor and I would be accepted.
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O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
