Edmund Waller Quotes
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don't. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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For me, Modern Warfare 3 's plot makes its signature turn around the bend when Russia invades Europe. As in, all of it. Simultaneously. Now, I've never invaded Europe, except for that one time, but I would think that's a project you might want to stagger out a bit if you haven't forged an alliance with any galactic empires lately.
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Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
