William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, 'I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be.' I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
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Somewhere in my closetThere's a cardboard box just sittin' on a shelf.It's full of faded memoriesAnd it's been there ever since the night you left.Oh, just forgotten photographsTo remind me of the past.Oh, but I can still see everything just fine.Who needs pictures with a memory like mine?Yeah, who needs pictures with a memory like mine?
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But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
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I got an early education from television.
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I hated stand-up.
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
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I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.
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I've just always been interested in moving past the keyboard and mouse.
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Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.
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We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.
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When we did this reboot, I thought 'Ghostbusters' fans would be so excited: 'They've got the new technology - the ghosts are going to look real now.'
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It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.
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I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.
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How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.
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Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
