Wilson Mizner Quotes

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Wilson Mizner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 19, 1876 - April 3, 1933

Topics

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I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to do, to showcase every place in the country that our ideas are working at the state level, that that will help those at the federal level who want to carry those policies.

Jim DeMint

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We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and theatre. If you were a man of the world and you mingled among the happy few, you would be at the opera.

Robert Lepage

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When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years.

Stephen Rea

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I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.

Tom Paulin

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Every day, do small gestures of generosity! It does not mean go to Cambodia. Do it at home. If you do nothing at home, evil becomes normal.

Rithy Panh

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I try to stay away from processed foods. I eat lean meats and get as many veggies as I can on my plate, so when mum calls me on a Sunday, I can tell her I'm eating enough veggies! I love pasta, but I don't eat carbs a whole lot, and I love fruit.

Luke Mitchell

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Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

Michael Korda

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In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

Lucy Powell

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I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

Jonny Greenwood

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I grew up with a sister and a younger brother in a house where every evening was spent performing a dance routine in front of our parents with my sister.

Disha Patani

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If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'

Dick Wolf

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I'm just trying to be myself. I'm not trying to be anyone else.

Conor McGregor

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