W. C. Fields Quotes
What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.
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Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.
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I rot on the wall, my ownDorian Gray.
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When you get a chance to get a W, that's the most important thing.
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You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.
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What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.
