William Osler Quotes
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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I like to disappear in the parts I play.
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But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.
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When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
