Lope de Vega Quotes
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.
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If the Jews win this battle, then the Arabs had better go bury their faces in the mud!
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I hold no dream of fortune vast,Nor seek undying fame.I do not ask when life is pastThat many know my name.I may not own the skill to riseTo glory's topmost height,Nor win a place among the wise,But I can keep the right.And I can live my life on earthContented to the end,If but a few shall know my worthAnd proudly call me friend.
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.
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Willow: Don't worry, we're sure to spot Faith first. She's like this cleavagey slutbomb walking around going, 'Ooh, check me out, I'm wicked cool, I'm five by five.'Tara: 'Five by five?' Five what by five what?Willow: See, that's the thing. No one knows.
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During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
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The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.
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For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
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Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.
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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
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If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.
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Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.
