William Oldys Quotes
Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away.
Quotes to Explore
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
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I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
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I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.
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I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.
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Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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The bullpen and starters have been strong all year. This series the hitters are picking us up.
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Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away.
