Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
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I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
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I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions agst. danger real or pretended from abroad.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros are also acceptable.
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What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.
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I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.
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If there's anybody who is recognized as the one guy who has stymied Alaskan development, it's Bill Clinton.
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I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it.
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In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart.
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There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.
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My grandmother Rosita, my mother Angela and I have probably got different styles but we have very similar tastes. For example, I don't find it hard to use colours or wear knits, since it's something that comes to me naturally.
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I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.
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When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.
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On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the same thing. But it didn't matter how pretty you painted the world.
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What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
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What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
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A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
