Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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If anyone can put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we've made to our health care system and that covers as many people at less cost, I will publicly support it.
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Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way,And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say.Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend:You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.
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The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.
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I have sometimes thought that all professional lectures on rationality should be delivered while wearing a clown suit, to prevent the audience from confusing seriousness with solemnity.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
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I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.
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My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.
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When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.
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With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.
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The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is because the bottoms of both swings - the area around impact - are identical.
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Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.
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When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have to have someone to share it with.
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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
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I always got along with Borg, who was my greatest rival. People like to see me and Connors, me and Lendl, go at it. We didn't like each other.
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God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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If I could go back in time, I would have loved to have done more with Triple H. He blossomed into a bigger star after I left. I regret, looking back now, that we didn't have more matches or better matches or at least one pay-per-view match where we could have really showed our best stuff - or, at least, I did.
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To the valiant actions speak alone.
