What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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I will never ever sell Neverland. ~Michael Jackson
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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