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John Irving Quotes

As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1942

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Hate Others Hatred Him Reason Side

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

Life Democracy Think Political Moral

There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

Time School Pen Crime Fountain

I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.

People Small Play Know Two People

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

Melissa Etheridge

Long Gay Up Waking Up Sort Waking

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

Travel People Think Sometimes Cook

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Someone You Find Results Copy Want

The original Alexandre Dumas was born in 1762, the son of 'Antoine Alexandre de l'Isle,' in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue. Antoine was a nobleman in hiding from his family and from the law, and he fathered the boy with a black slave.

Family Son Law Black Born Sugar

When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives.

Life People You Find Special First

Launching and seeding awareness of a new tagline is a major financial undertaking. You'd have to be very sure that you needed to do that.

Financial You New Awareness Sure

I think it's great when people accuse me, almost always falsely, of promoting conspiracy theories, because that shows how effective I am at messaging and how effectively I can use social media.

Great Social Media I Am People Me

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.

Time Development Project Frame Lived

I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.

Purpose People Team Conflict Play

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