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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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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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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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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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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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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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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Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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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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If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.
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When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
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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.
