Alphonse Karr Quotes
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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There are a lot more shots coming at the net and guys are just shooting it at the net because they have more time and pucks are going in off legs and feet and shoulders and heads, so you might have to play out a little further on the shot and hope it hits you.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.
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You know, and I know, just how much we defy.
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
