Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
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The world could change in a second,so I find the sunshine beckons me,to open up the gate and dream.
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This is George Bush’s accountability moment.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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It's one thing to talk about the redistribution of wealth. It's quite another thing to talk about the redistribution of power. That's more what interests me.
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
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When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.
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Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.
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I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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’You know your Shelley, Bertie!’‘Oh, am I?’
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It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.
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Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
