Alexander Pope Quotes
Let such, such only tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country and be poor.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I've always thought of myself as shy.
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Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
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Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.
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Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.
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Let such, such only tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country and be poor.
