George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Quotes
True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.
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A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
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My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.
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Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
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The exact scope of it, with respect to the beginning of life and the end of life, those are issues that are coming before the court in both respects, and I don't think that I should go further.
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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Leave us to our free election.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty....you might want to play something out of context with the tune. It might be a note that creates so much tension it becomes unpleasant, but you want it to sound that way.
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I would say where I feel like I'm struggling the most in learning and giving myself permission to fail is in finding the balance in life. There are different aspects to women: there's the mother, there's the working woman, there's the wife, the friend, the sister, the daughter and so just figuring that all out. I continue to want to try new things and give myself permission to not be great at it.
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True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.
