William Goldman Quotes
You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
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[The] United States is proud to stand with you as your strongest ally and greatest friend. I see this visit as an opportunity to reaffirm the unbreakable bond between our nations, to restate America's unwavering commitment to Israel's security, and to speak directly to Israel and to your neighbors.
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[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.
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The music I do in live performances is made for a specific situation. I know that people are sitting down and shutting up and they're with me for 90 minutes. They're totally with me. Whatever I do, I know they have my attention and they follow my pace.
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You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest
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You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.
