Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
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Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesemollit mores nec sinit esse feros.
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A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.
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We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.
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I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with … or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.
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If you take as your pattern the wings of feathered birds, these are more powerful in structure of bone and sinew because they are penetrable, that is to say the feathers are separated from one another and the air passes through them. But the bat is aided by its membrane, which binds the whole together and is not penetrated by the air.
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People go to their jobs and hate it every day, but they have great ideas. Put that same time and effort into something you love - it really starts with being honest with yourself.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible.
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Society would be a lot better if people watched Hulu's original programming and not just 'Mozart in the Jungle,' which everyone is watching, apparently.
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Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.
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You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
