Bill Courtney Quotes
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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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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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
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The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
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The personality when it leaves your plane for good will have developed its potentials as far as it possibly can.
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Battles are followed by years of famine.
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My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.
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I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)
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The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.
