Ben Jonson Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.
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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
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Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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It was a mighty while ago.
