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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.
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I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.
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As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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In the second half we upped the tempo, scored four and could have got more.
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
