Henry Fielding Quotes

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Henry Fielding

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

Mel B

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It's no fun being lonely.

Maurice Sendak

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I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

Jean-Marie Lehn

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When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

John Thune

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I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.

Ron Dellums

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I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Michael Keaton

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I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

Joshua Malina

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I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

Josh Brolin

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I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. But, yes, it is a challenge. And democracy and democratic debate has to be open to take that debate openly and not push questions aside.

Jonas Gahr Store

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I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with. On the other hand someone's whole behaviour allows you to characterise them in a certain way. This person has liberal convictions, that person has conservative ones, this person is a radical socialist, and so on.

Dmitry Medvedev

MyselfSomeoneYouMeasurePerson

You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

Dean Jones

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Netflix likes critical attention, and they like their analytics.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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