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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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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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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My mother always wanted to give back.
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I have twice gone fishing with rod and line just because other boys asked me to, but this sport was soon made impossible for me by the treatment of the worms that were put on the hook for bait, and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes that were caught. I gave it up, and even found courage enough to dissuade other boys from going.
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I am obsessed with planning travel! Not just traveling, which I love, but the whole planning process and all the details that go into it. I subscribe to all these travel blogs and airline forums and research hotels and activities and destinations for hours on end, and I volunteer to plan trips for everyone I know.
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It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.
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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.
