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 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'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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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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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
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The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.
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If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.
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White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It's a great stress reliever for me. It's great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it's things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
