William Gilbert (Gilberd) Quotes

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

William Gilbert

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• Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
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• But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  

  Saint Patrick
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• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.

  

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• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

  

  Walt Disney
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• 'Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with moustaches.' 1

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
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• The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
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• The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

  

  Donald Trump
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• Touring is really hard because you're gone for three months at a time.

  

  Andy Grammer
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• Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.

  

  Joe Bastianich
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• I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year.

  

  Ann Veneman
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• I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
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• There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

  

  Mark Consuelos
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• I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

  

  Elliot Perlman
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• It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives, and you live in a semi-attached row house in Queens.

  

  James Gray
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• You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

  

  Meg Whitman
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• On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• Told ya. Born lucky - lucky and handsome. And today I'm gonna be free.

  

  Doug McClure
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• The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
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• The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.

  

  Jeh Johnson
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• O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

  

  William Gilbert