Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught me that ultimately, it's a good script, good work that matters, whether in Bollywood or in the South.
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Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
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I still feel like I've got a lot of great football in front of me and the way that I've taken care of myself better the last few years. I think is going to put me in position to be able to play really well late in my 30s and even in my early 40s, possibly, if they'd like to keep me around that long and I can still play a little bit.
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When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems.
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
