Edward Fitzgerald Quotes
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
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I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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I know that for me, whenever I'm in a situation where there's death or sickness, my personality is to come in and do whatever I can to ease anything I can, in terms of offering to take care of things. Cooking, organizing, things like that.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
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The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'
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The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
