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| People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions. |
John Lennon |
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| Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. |
John Lennon |
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| I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960 |
John Lennon |
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| Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. |
John Lennon |
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| It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. |
W. R. Inge |
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| And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others |
Sir Thomas More |
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| Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it. |
Sir Thomas More |
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| Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. |
Sir Thomas More |
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| A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. |
Sir Thomas More |
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| Friendship demands attention. |
Sir Thomas More |
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| Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound. |
Sir Thomas More |
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| They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. |
Sir Thomas More |
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| A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. |
Sir Thomas More |
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| This hath not offended the king. |
Sir Thomas More |
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| Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again. |
Sir Thomas More |
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| Why dost thou gaze upon the sky O that I were yon spangled sphere Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here. |
Sir Thomas More |
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| Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. |
Bruce Marton |
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| Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. |
Arnold Bennett |
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| Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. |
Arnold Bennett |
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| It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. |
Arnold Bennett |
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| The moment you're born you're done for. |
Arnold Bennett |
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| Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. |
Arnold Bennett |
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| Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. |
Arnold Bennett |
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| 'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.' |
Arnold Bennett |
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| The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. |
Arnold Bennett |
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| Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. |
Arnold Bennett |
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| Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. |
Arnold Bennett |
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| Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. |
James Barrie |
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| You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. |
James Barrie |
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| Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. |
James Barrie |
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| One's religion is whatever one is most interested in. |
James Barrie |
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| Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary. |
James Barrie |
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| If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. |
James Barrie |
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| To die will be an awfully big adventure. |
James Barrie |
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| We are all failures--at least, the best of us are. |
James Barrie |
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| Always be a little kinder than necessary. |
James Barrie |
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| Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. |
James Barrie |
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| The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. |
James Barrie |
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| The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. |
James Barrie |
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| The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight |
Batman |
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| The Joker Never rub another man's rhubarb. |
Batman |
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| The Joker Wait'll they get a load of ME |
Batman |
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| Batman You killed my parents. The Joker What What What are you talking about Batman I made you, you made me first. The Joker Give me a break. I was a kid when I killed your parents. When I say I made you you gotta say you made me. How childish can you get |
Batman |
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| The Joker Here we are, the perfect pair... Beauty and the Beast. Mind you, if anybody calls you beast, I'll rip their lungs out. |
Batman |
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| The Joker What kind of a world is this where a man dressed as a bat gets ALL MY PRESS This town needs an enema |
Batman |
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| Batman I'm not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me. Nic What are you Batman I'm Batman |
Batman |
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| Bruce Wayne Y'see, my life is really com-PLEX. |
Batman |
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| It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. |
Woody Allen |
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| Eighty percent of success is showing up. |
Woody Allen |
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| Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things. |
Woody Allen |
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| I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. |
Woody Allen |
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| If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. |
Woody Allen |
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| More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. |
Woody Allen |
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| Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. |
Woody Allen |
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| It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. |
Woody Allen |
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| Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. |
Woody Allen |
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| When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. |
Woody Allen |
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| I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. |
Woody Allen |
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| Should I marry W. Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. |
Woody Allen |
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| The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. |
Woody Allen |
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| Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. |
Woody Allen |
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| I am at two with nature. |
Woody Allen |
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| Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. |
Woody Allen |
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| I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick -- not wounded -- dead. |
Woody Allen |
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| I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven. |
Woody Allen |
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| It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. |
Woody Allen |
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| I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. |
Woody Allen |
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| On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. |
Woody Allen |
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| The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion. |
Woody Allen |
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| At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time. |
Woody Allen |
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| Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. |
Woody Allen |
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| Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage. |
Woody Allen |
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| Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. |
Woody Allen |
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| Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered |
Woody Allen |
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| What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. |
Woody Allen |
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| Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. |
Woody Allen |
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| I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. |
Woody Allen |
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| How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter |
Woody Allen |
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| How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size |
Woody Allen |
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| His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. |
Woody Allen |
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| As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. |
Woody Allen |
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| I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. |
Woody Allen |
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| I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. |
Woody Allen |
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| I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. |
Woody Allen |
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| It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. |
Woody Allen |
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| If only God would give me some clear sign Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. |
Woody Allen |
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| If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. |
Woody Allen |
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| It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. |
Woody Allen |
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| The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7, it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone. |
Woody Allen |
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| Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. |
Woody Allen |
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| Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. |
Woody Allen |
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| Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. |
Woody Allen |
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| Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. |
Woody Allen |
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| Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness. |
Woody Allen |
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| My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. |
Woody Allen |
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| There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman |
Woody Allen |
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| The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. |
Woody Allen |
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| To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. |
Woody Allen |
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| When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. |
Woody Allen |
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| What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists |
Woody Allen |
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