Gerald Brenan Quotes
Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.
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Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.
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I began researching natural healing, which is how I came to change my diet. Overnight, I gave up refined sugar, gluten, dairy, anything processed or refined, and meat.
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But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.
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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
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IV. Every tax ought to be contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
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I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
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I believe that both people in a marriage should be concentrated on health, and you should be inspiring each other. How to make your mind healthier, how to make your body healthier. Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy soul.
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It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
