William Wycherley Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I hate it when girls act stupid ’cause they think it’s cute. Intelligence is sexy.
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There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
