Ben Jonson Quotes
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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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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When I became a manager, my enthusiasm became more because when you have the possibility to waste your energy and show your passion during the game; it is good.
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Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.
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No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.
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As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.
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There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.
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It was a mighty while ago.
