William Beckett Quotes
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
Zaha Hadid
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Dan O'Brien
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
Octavio Paz
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
Laura Osnes
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I would love to have played Gollum.
Orlando Bloom
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
Hal Sparks
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
Carla Gallo
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
Uday Kotak
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
Zac Efron
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
Paddy Ashdown
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An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
Ted Yoho
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I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.
Tarsem Singh
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I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.
Saffron Aldridge
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A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
Pat Buchanan
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Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.
Alfred Bester
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on becoming an artist It is my profession, yes to be an artist but a calling.. that a little bit pathetic, a little bit bombastic. I think it was much more natural.. .I Thought – when I was a child – the only method to be not in the world but outside of the world is to be an artist. I feel me outside, yes..
Anselm Kiefer
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I'm pretty sure Africa was made up by the media to scare people. I mean, I've never seen it. Have you? I didn't think so.
Zach Braff
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I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.
William Beckett