Bat Masterson Quotes
There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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I am old. I am young. I am Gwion, I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.
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There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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The regular Democratic Party and its organization was run by men who looked on women as little more than machine parts.
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Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki told Congress in February that the occupation could require 'several hundred thousand troops.' But because Rumsfeld and Bush did not want to hear disagreement with their view that Iraq could be invaded at a much lower cost, Shinseki was hushed and then forced out.
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Q: Do you find quite a difference between the audience at large and the critics as a group? A: Well, one is a group of human beings, one is not.
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With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
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The Olympics is not really about the sport, it's about the story behind the person. You keep the sport relatively simple to understand - let the fans understand that a takedown is 1 point, a turn is 2, a pin and the match is over. Keep it simple, and keep the story on the individual.
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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After the first couple of years recording, I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.
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One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.
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There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.
