William Shenstone Quotes
The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.
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We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.
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I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.
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I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.
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The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.
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The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
