Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 2072.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
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People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
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Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
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Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
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Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.
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Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
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