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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
PENN Address (2004) -
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Music as an Aspect of the Human Spirit (1954) -
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things-blocking and tackling.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. [On his acting techniques]
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
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Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
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Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
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Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin.
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Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
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