Gilbert Highet Quotes

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

Gilbert Highet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: June 22, 1906 - January 20, 1978

Topics

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Having kids and a relationship at such an early age definitely built up my hunger and perseverance to succeed.

Anderson Silva

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My priority is always playing tennis and practising and doing my schedule with my tennis.

Angelique Kerber

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White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.

Michael Eric Dyson

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Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

Mia Maestro

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Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.

Simon Cowell

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I'm not a matchmaker; I don't run the UFC - I'm a fighter. So I'll stick to doing what I do best: training and punching people.

Robbie Lawler

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On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan.

Michael T. Flynn

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I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Lorrie Moore

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I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

Lisa Vanderpump

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We get paid way less than we deserve. We deliver shows and deserve to get paid more. We practically pay to do this. You deserve to get better paid if you sell the fight.

Jose Aldo

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I don't put nothing out if it's not ready.

Desiigner

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I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.'

Drew Barrymore

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