William Wycherley Quotes
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
Quotes to Explore
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.
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I must follow my heart.
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.
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Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
