William Gilbert (Gilberd) Quotes
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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I know all the critics.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
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The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.
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The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.
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Uniformity is the friend of scalability.
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He has no credibility left.
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The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
