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Henry Fielding Quotes

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: April 22, 1707 - October 8, 1754

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Against Because Would Glad Some

Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done.

Me Someone You Done Competitive

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

Life Good Someone Want Why Two

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

Family Failure Happiness Music Story

I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

People Me Partner Think Feel Trying

I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

Tommy Lee Jones

Character Language Play Try Movement

It's really nice to know that hard work does pay off.

Work Hard Work Know Nice Hard Pay

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

Great Washington Overcome Odds Times

What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.

Men Me Hats Why Understand No Sense

Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney.

Michelle Alexander

People Prison Year Meeting Go Jail

I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.

Music People Seeing Visualize Up

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill - he was an alcoholic - so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn't know how to get it out.

Father School Angry Me Small Know

I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

Dennis Kucinich

Time War People Think American You

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