Alexander Pope Quotes
Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.
Quotes to Explore
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.
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Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.
