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And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
Diana Wynne Jones
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We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.
Serj Tankian
I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
Paul McCartney
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.


W. Somerset Maugham
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Brevity is the soul of wit.


William Shakespeare
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The well of true wit is truth itself.


George Meredith
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.


Alexander Pope
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
Nas
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.


Michael Bergin
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.


Mark Van Doren
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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Alfred Marshall
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I'm an idiot.


Kate Mara
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I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years.


Ruth Rendell
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On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.
Sylvester McCoy
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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.


Harry Hay
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.


Elizabeth I
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Richard Dawkins
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Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.
Liam Neeson
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