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.
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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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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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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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Funnily enough, I was a big fan of the show and had been watching it - along with everybody else - and had never imagined that I would be on it. You kind of look at shows and think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that one.' But I didn't really see myself on 'True Blood.'
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I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
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It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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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.
