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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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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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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The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
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When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.
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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
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Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
